Samantha Neugebauer

100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-six

Samantha Neugebauer

January 12, 2017

story: In the Land of Armadillos author: Helen Maryles Shankman year: 2016 where: bedroom, sore throat, soaring heart note: the paperback and hardback have different names a line: “There was something glamorous about him, Max thought, a certain inborn elegance, as if he belonged to a lost branch of a forgotten monarchy.”

100 days 100 short stories read day one

Helen Maryles Shankman, In the Land of Armadillos, Short Stories, short story
100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-five

Samantha Neugebauer

January 11, 2017

story: The Earth is a Stingy Bastard author: Zain Saeed year: 2017! where: kitchen table, English breakfast tea and hot milk note: new Glimmer Train arrived this morning, just when I needed a pick-me-up a line: “I was only just beginning to realize that there was no possible way they could have known anything about the things I…

100 days 100 short stories read day one

Glimmer Train, literature, Short Stories, The Earth is a Stingy Bastard, Zain Saeed

BIO: Samantha Neugebauer is the author of the forthcoming short story collection Villains (WWPH, January 2027) and hybrid craft-pedagogy book Teaching Writing Through Story Reimaginings: Adaptation as Critical Practice (Bloomsbury, 2028). She is a lecturer at N.Y.U. in Washington, D.C., and serves as a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. Originally from Philadelphia, Samantha holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and N.Y.U.’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In the recent past, Samantha taught at Johns Hopkins, N.Y.U. in Abu Dhabi, and amassed nearly a decade of experience working abroad in the UAE, Germany, Italy, England, China, Greece, and elsewhere, including a recent position as a research assistant at Georgetown University/Georgetown University in Qatar. Her current novel manuscript, which she completed at the Hawthornden Residency in Scotland during summer 2025, was chosen as the 2024 runner-up for the Marianne Russo Award. She is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and nowadays, splits her time between Washington, Taiwan, and other places…

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100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-six

100 days 100 short stories:: story thirty-five