Samantha Hunt

Hunt was born the youngest of six children{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-this-week-samantha-hunt-2017-05-23|title=This Week in Fiction: Samantha Hunt on the Unspoken Terrors of Being a New Mother|last=Leyshon|first=Cressida|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en|date=May 23, 2017|access-date=2020-03-09}} in 1971. Her father was an editor, her mother is a painter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/190905.Samantha_Hunt|title=Samantha Hunt|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2020-03-09}} She moved in 1989 to attend the University of Vermont,{{cite news |title=Q&A with author Samantha Hunt |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5bb696a6-d59e-11e5-829b-8564e7528e54 |access-date=19 June 2022 |work=Financial Times |date=19 February 2016}}{{subscription required}} where she studied literature, printmaking and geology. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, before moving to New York City in 1999.

Hunt's debut novel, The Seas, first published in 2004, is a magical-realist novel about a young girl in a Northern town who believes herself to be a mermaid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/2183558-the-seas|title=The Seas|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=2020-03-09}} The book was voted one of the Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 2004,{{Cite web|url=http://samanthahunt.net/seas1.html|title=Samantha Hunt : : The Seas|website=samanthahunt.net|access-date=2020-03-09}} and won the National Book Foundation award for 5 Under 35 in 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-seas/|title=The Seas|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-09}} In 2018, The Seas was republished by Tin House Books in 2018 with a foreword by Maggie Nelson.

In 2008, she published her second novel, The Invention of Everything Else through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel provides a fictionalized account of the final days of inventor Nikola Tesla. It won both the Bard Fiction Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.{{Cite web|url=http://www.samanthahunt.net/bio.html|title=Samantha Hunt|website=www.samanthahunt.net|access-date=2020-03-10}}

Her other novels include Mr. Splitfoot (2016), a ghost story,{{Cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=RW9qc1ZUa1JmZjMxUTZrTDJaSjBudz09|title=Pratt Institute|website=www.pratt.edu|access-date=2020-03-10}} and The Dark Dark: Stories (2017), a collection of short stories.

Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, 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 won the Bard Fiction Prize,[https://web.archive.org/web/20130217105912/http://www.bard.edu/bfp/2010/ "Samantha Hunt, 2010 Recipient"]

Bard Fiction Prize. the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award,{{cite web|title=KQED, Public Media for Northern California|website=www.kqed.org |url=http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=22393}} the St. Francis College Literary Prize{{cite web|url=https://www.sfc.edu/news/samantha-hunt-wins-2019-sfc-literary-prize-for-the-dark-dark|title=Samantha Hunt Wins 2019 SFC Literary Prize for The Dark Dark|publisher= St. Francis College|date=September 21, 2019|access-date=March 24, 2023}} and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.{{cite news|last=Itzkoff|first=David|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/orange-prize-finalists-announced/|title=Orange Prize Finalists Announced|date=21 April 2009|work=New York Times}} In 2017, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/samantha-hunt/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Samantha Hunt|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-10}}

Hunt's credits her experiences growing up one of six children for her interest in literature,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/books/review/samantha-hunt-by-the-book.html|title=Samantha Hunt: By the Book|date=2018-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-10|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} her dialogue,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2020/02/samantha-hunt-writing-her-new-story-go-team/605995/|title=Samantha Hunt on the Unbearable Flatness of Being|last=Gebremedhin|first=Thomas|date=2020-02-11|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-10}} and her fictional portrayals of motherhood.

Hunt is a professor of writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

• The Unwritten Book (2022)
• The Dark Dark: Stories (2017)
• Mr Splitfoot (2016)
• The Invention of Everything Else (2008) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jgdp4_kx3k Reading at Google]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130502055834/http://macadamcage.com/book/the-seas The Seas] (2004)
• My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla and Samantha Hunt (introduction - 2011)

• "A Love Story", The New Yorker, 22 May 2017{{Cite magazine|date=2017-05-15|title="A Love Story"|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/a-love-story-samantha-hunt|access-date=2022-02-24|magazine=The New Yorker|first=Samantha|last=Hunt|language=en-US}}
• "The Yellow", The New Yorker, 21 November 2010{{Cite magazine|date=2010-11-22|title=The Yellow|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/29/the-yellow|first=Samantha|last=Hunt|access-date=2022-02-24|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}
• "Three Days", The New Yorker, 8 January 2016{{Cite magazine|date=2006-01-09|title=Three Days|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/01/16/three-days|first=Samantha|last=Hunt|access-date=2022-02-24|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}
• "Go Team", The Atlantic, March 2020{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Samantha|date=2020-02-11|title=Go, Team|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/samantha-hunt-go-team/605554/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=The Atlantic|language=en}}

• "There Is Only One Direction", New York Magazine, 12 May 2015{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Samantha|title=There Is Only One Direction|url=https://www.thecut.com/2015/05/there-is-only-one-direction.html|access-date=2022-02-24|website=The Cut|date=May 12, 2015 |language=en-us}}
• "Queer Theorem", Lapham's Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2017{{Cite web|title=Queer Theorem {{!}} Samantha Hunt|url=https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/discovery/queer-theorem|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Lapham’s Quarterly|language=en}}
• "Terrible Twins", The New York Times Magazine, 1 April 2011{{Cite news|last=Hunt|first=Samantha|date=2011-04-01|title=Terrible Twins|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03lives-t.html|access-date=2022-02-24|issn=0362-4331}}
• "Swiss Near-Miss", This American Life, 11 June 2014{{Cite web|date=2017-12-12|title=Swiss Near-miss|url=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/267/propriety/act-three-0|access-date=2022-02-24|website=This American Life|first=Claire|last=Beckmann|author2=Samantha Hunt}}
• "A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist", Lithub, 4 January 2016{{Cite web|date=2016-01-04|title=A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist|url=https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-books-that-do-not-exist/|access-date=2022-02-24|website=Literary Hub|first=Samantha|last=Hunt|language=en-US}}

{{Reflist}}

• The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/style/samantha-hunt-the-unwritten-book.html]
• [http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_04_014316.php Interview] at Bookslut
• Interview on the [http://www.edrants.com/segundo/samantha-hunt-bss-183/ Bat Segundo Show]

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