On Monday, February 24 at 5:30pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Samantha Hunt will discuss her work after a screening of her short film The Yellow. Introduced and moderated by Dinaw Mengestu, this event is free and open to the student body.

This event will be the first of the Center for Ethics and Writing’s semester long symposium, Writing the Present.

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner. Her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Her short film The Yellow, was selected for the Toronto International Film Fest. Hunt teaches at Pratt and Bennington College.