Samantha Hunt, Jesse Nathan, and Mark Wunderlich

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Samantha Hunt, Jesse Nathan, and Mark Wunderlich will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

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. Photo by Tim Davis.

Jesse Nathan's first book of poems, Eggtooth, won the 2024 New Writers Award and the Housatonic Book Prize, and was published with a foreword by Robert Hass. Nathan’s poems have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, BOMB, Kenyon Review, and other magazines. He’s a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series, and he teaches literature at UC Berkeley. Nathan was raised in rural Kansas and northern California and lives now in Oakland.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press in 2021. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize; Voluntary Servitude; and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Amy Lowell Trust, and he has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and held two fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he now serves as Chair of the Writing Committee. His poems, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and his poems are widely anthologized. Since 2003, he has taught writing and literature at Bennington College, where he became the Director of the Writing Seminars in 2017. He holds a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin, and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University School of the Arts.