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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.

Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize. In 2017, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction

Hunt's credits her experience as being one of six children for her interest in literature, her dialogue writing, and how she writes about motherhood in her novels. She cites Joseph T. Shipley’s Dictionary of Word Origins as making her who she is today.

Her other novels include Mr. Splitfoot (2016), a ghost story, and The Dark Dark: Stories (2017), a collection of short stories.

In 2015, Hunt revealed that she had undergone treatment for ovarian cancer.

In 2008, she published her second novel, The Invention of Everything Else through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The novel provides a fictionalized account of the final days of inventor Nikola Tesla. It won both the Bard Fiction Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

Hunt's debut novel, The Seas, first published in 2004, is a magical realism novel about a young girl in a Northern town who believes herself to be a mermaid. The book was voted one of Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 2004, and won the National Book Foundation award for "5 under 35" in 2006. In 2018, The Seas was republished by Tin House Books in 2018 with a foreword by Maggie Nelson.

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

Hunt was born the youngest of six children in 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York. Her father was an editor, her mother was a painter. She moved in 1989 for to attend the University of Vermont, where she studied literature, printmaking and geology. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, before moving to New York City in 1999.