Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt 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, 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.