Samantha Hunt

Fiction

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.

writing@bennington.edu

Biography

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 is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages.