Will Hunt is a nonfiction writer. He is the author of Underground (Random House, 2019), an investigation of humanity’s ancient and intimate connection to subterranean spaces. His writing on landscape, memory, cultural heritage, and our relationship to the deep past has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Atavist, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He has received grants and awards from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and MacDowell.
His current book project, a work of narrative nonfiction for Random House entitled Bones, explores the power of the ancestral dead—their bodies, bones, and burial grounds—to shape contemporary culture and politics.
Selected Work
- Telling the Bees: An essay for Broadcast about the ancient role of bees in helping us commune with our dead.
- Preparing Odesa’s Catacombs for a Russian Assault: A piece for the New Yorker about a band of young volunteers in Odesa building a defense network inside the city’s vast network of subterranean quarries.