Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; The Invention of Everything Else about inventor Nikola Tesla; and, most recently, The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a blue-ribbon winner of the Montgomery Place Apple Pie contest. Hunt adapted her story “The Yellow” into a short film that became an official selection at the Toronto International Film Fest. She was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt is mother to three and sister to five. She is gardener and a singer.

MFA, Writing, Warren Wilson College
BFA, University of Vermont

Hangman, 2025, The Yale Review

Go, Team, 2020, The Atlantic

A Love Story, 2017, The New Yorker

The Yellow, The New Yorker, 2010, adapted into short film The Yellow, an official selection of the Toronto International Film Fest, 2024

A Novelist Revisits Her ‘Haunted’ Childhood Home, 2022.

Circulation Desk, from The Unwritten Book, 2022

There is Only One Direction, New York Magazine, 2015

Citizens of the Peace, Orion Magazine, 2022

Queer Theorem, Lapham’s Quarterly, 2017

13 Ways of Looking, Literary Hub, 2022