A map is a container, an atlas even more so as it includes thousands of routes that interlace and cross. When we write in a cartographic model, we dissolve borders and boundaries. Personhood realizes its plurality. Fernando Pessoa says, “I know myself only as a symphony.” This generative lecture will contain gorgeous maps, writing prompts and a Q & A session to help us consider the cartographic in our writing.

About the Instructor:

Samantha Hunt’s books include the novels The Seas (Tin House), The Invention of Everything Else (Mariner Books), and Mr. Splitfoot (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); the story collection The Dark Dark and the genre-bending nonfiction work The Unwritten Book (both Farrar, Straus, & Giroux). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.