New American Writing: Samantha Hunt & Ben Marcus

Samantha Hunt is the author of The Seas and The Invention of Everything Else, a novel about inventor Nikola Tesla. Hunt’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, Tin House, Cabinet, and Blind Spot, among others. She teaches at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women, The Age of Wire and String and The Flame Alphabet. His awards include three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Marcus is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

This series of contemporary fiction and poetry readings is organized by Benjamin Weissman, author of two books of short fiction, most recently Headless, and professor of creative writing at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design.