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 and the novels Mr. Splitfoot and The Invention of Everything Else, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.

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. Hunt graduated from the University of Vermont in 1993.

• 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)