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Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt is the author of the story collection The Dark Dark and the novels Mr. Splitfoot, The Invention of Everything Else, and The Seas, along with The Unwritten Book, a work of nonfiction. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 prize, and the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and she was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives in upstate New York.


13 Ways of Looking: Samantha Hunt on the Visual Inspirations Behind Her First Work of Nonfiction

The First in a Series in Which Writers Examine the Influence of Art and Photography on Their Work
July 28, 2022  By Samantha Hunt
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Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

“Being a human is extraordinary.”
April 13, 2022  By Samantha Hunt
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Samantha Hunt: Ghosts of Brooklyn Past

"Why is it so hard to know a person we see everyday?"
July 10, 2018  By Samantha Hunt
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A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist

Of Ghosts and the Great Invisible Library
January 4, 2016  By Samantha Hunt
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Nikola Tesla, An Alien Intelligence

Invention as Poetry, Electricity as Magic
July 9, 2015  By Samantha Hunt
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