Tuesday, Jul 29, 2025
Reading w/ Samantha Hunt
About
Join us for a special evening with award-winning author Samantha Hunt, presented in partnership by the Fishers Island Library and Lighthouse Works. The program will feature a reading from Hunt’s celebrated body of work, followed by a conversation with author and Library Board member Anna Noyes.
Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; The Seas a novel about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt’s work has been translated into twelve languages. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. She teaches at Pratt Institute and at the Bennington College Writing Seminars.
This event is free and open to the public. A Q&A will follow the reading and conversation.
Artist
Bio
Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; The Seas a novel about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt’s work has been translated into twelve languages. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. She teaches at Pratt Institute and at the Bennington College Writing Seminars.