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. She was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt is mother to three and sister to five. She is gardener, a beekeeper, a wild swimmer, a singer, a walker and a forest enthusiast in Tivoli, New York.

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

A Love Story, 2017, The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/a-love-story-samantha-hunt
Go, Team, 2020, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/samantha-hunt-go-team/605554/
A Novelist Revisits Her ‘Haunted’ Childhood Home, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/style/samantha-hunt-the-unwritten-book.html
Circulation Desk, from The Unwritten Book, 2022, https://lithub.com/samantha-hunt-on-the-wild-delirium-of-loving-language/
There is Only One Direction, 2015, New York Magazine. https://www.thecut.com/2015/05/there-is-only-one-direction.html
Citizens of the Peace, 2022, Orion Magazine https://orionmagazine.org/article/citizens-of-peace/
Queer Theorem, 2017, Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/discovery/queer-theorem
13 Ways of Looking, Literary Hub, 2022 https://lithub.com/13-ways-of-looking-samantha-hunt-on-the-visual-inspirations-behind-her-first-work-of-nonfiction/
The Yellow, 2010, The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/29/the-yellow
This Long Century, 2017 http://www.thislongcentury.com/samantha-hunt