About Fervent Forte

“Fervent Forte” means, roughly, having a passionate intensity for something at which one excels.  Fervent Forte Management was founded in Los Angeles in 2025 by Hunter Ridgway after a three-decade+ career as a senior political manager, communications manager, and policy advisor on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.  Hunter is the writer/author of I HATE THE SMART ART CLUB!, MARIA ISASBELLA SILVALESSA, ELEANOR OF ELLENDALE OF EARTH, and COUP OF ME, and, in 2017, he founded Pen It by Hunter Ridgway.  Hunter grew up in Nashville and Mobile, Alabama; he graduated from the University of Virginia and is a law review graduate of Southern Methodist University (SMU) School of Law.  Fervent Forte’s goal is to forward the vision of a select group of writers and artists by developing and championing their passionate intensity and superior perception about drama and the world it illuminates.