Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt
Born (1971-05-15) May 15, 1971
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality American
Notable works The Dark Dark,Mr. Splitfoot,The Invention of Everything Else
Website
www.samanthahunt.net

Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer.

She is the author of The Dark Dark, published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux; The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage;[1] and the novels Mr. Splitfoot and The Invention of Everything Else,[2] published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award[3] and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.[4]

Career

Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, A Public Space, Cabinet, Esquire, The Believer, Blind Spot, Harper’s Bazaar, the Village Voice, Seed Magazine, Tin House, New York Magazine, on the radio program This American Life and in a number of anthologies including Trampoline edited by Kelly Link. Hunt’s play, The Difference Engine, a story about the life of Charles Babbage, was produced by the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf. Hunt graduated from the University of Vermont in 1993 and teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.[5]

Books

• The Dark Dark: Stories (2017)
• Mr Splitfoot (2016)
• The Invention of Everything Else (2008)
• The Seas (2004)
• My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla and Samantha Hunt (introduction - 2011)

Online Texts

Fiction

• A Love Story - a short story
• The Yellow - a short story
• Three Days - a short story
• Reading at Google

Essays

• There Is Only One Direction
• Queer Theorem
• Terrible Twins
• This American Life

References

  1. ↑ Lyons, Stephen (19 December 2004). "A 'mermaid holds the key to a beloved sailors fate". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Louisa (23 March 2008). "At The Hotel New Yorker". New York Times.
  3. ↑ "KQED, Public Media for Northern California". http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=22393. External link in |publisher= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ↑ Itzkoff, David (21 April 2009). "Orange Prize Finalists Announced". New York Times.
  5. ↑ "4 Warren Wilson writers win Guggenheim Fellowships". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
Interviews

• Interview at Bookslut
• Interview on the Bat Segundo Show

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