Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer.

[4] She moved in 1989 to attend the University of Vermont,[5] where she studied literature, printmaking and geology.

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.

[15] Hunt's credits her experiences growing up one of six children for her interest in literature,[16] her dialogue,[17] and her fictional portrayals of motherhood.