Samantha Hunt

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

Books

• 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

• The Yellow - a short story
• Three Days - a short story
• Reading at Hammer Museumwith Ben Marcus
• Reading at Google

Essays

• Terrible Twins
• This American Life

Interviews

• Interview at Bookslut
• Interview on the Bat Segundo Show

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);
4. Itzkoff, David (21 April 2009). "Orange Prize Finalists Announced". New York Times.