Samantha Hunt (b. 1971 New York) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer. She is the author of the novel The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage and the novel The Invention of Everything Else, published by Houghton Mifflin. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.