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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

, 2025, The Yale Review

, 2020, The Atlantic

, 2017, The New Yorker

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

, 2022.

, from The Unwritten Book, 2022

, New York Magazine, 2015

, Orion Magazine, 2022

, Lapham’s Quarterly, 2017

, Literary Hub, 2022