Samantha Hunt is the author of Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story. Her novel The Invention of Everything Else won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Her novel The Seas won a National Book Foundation award for writers under 35. Hunt’s writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney's, This American Life, A Public Space, Tin House, Cabinet, and a number of other fine publications. "The Difference Engine," Hunt's story about the life of Charles Babbage, was produced by the Theater of the Two-Headed Calf. She lives in Tivoli, New York and teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Portrait by Marion Ettlinger
