AUTHOR TALK: Samantha Hunt

Presented July 29, 2025 in partnership with Lighthouse Works, celebrated author Samantha Hunt visited Fishers Island to share selections from The Seas a novel about a girl who might be a mermaid – and to join author and Library board member Anna Noyes for a conversation on mystery, memory, and the strange magic of everyday life.

“The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you’re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell…” ―Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction)

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Unwritten Book, essays about death and literature; 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.