Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; The Seas about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt’s work has been translated into thirteen languages. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her short film The Yellow was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt won a Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. She teaches at Pratt Institute.