Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only…

- Samantha Hunt

I live with deer and coyotes. Lyme ticks are a daily concern and mystery, but, yes, what do they mean? I don't know yet. But I'd rather point out the…

- Samantha Hunt

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in a similar …

- Samantha Hunt

I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy and birth. Though of course th…

- Samantha Hunt

The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so t…

- Samantha Hunt

I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my optimism.

- Samantha Hunt

I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my smallest child and there were crazy coyotes h…

- Samantha Hunt

Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they compl…

- Samantha Hunt

There is nothing more important to our survival, nothing more dignified than learning how to take care of others, how to serve and teach people with …

- Samantha Hunt