Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 309

Samantha Neugebauer

August 28, 2019

story: “Granddaughters” author: Anthony Marra year: 2015 where: Some taxi rides. note: First-Personal Plural a line: “Could we have misjudged the seriousness of their relationship? Galina had been as vivid as stained glass, but we hadn’t imagined that Kolya might have been the sunlight saturating her.” theme(s): Survival, jealousy, gossip, legacy

2019 short stories

american literature, Anthony Marra, first-person plural, Granddaughters
400 short stories: story 308

Samantha Neugebauer

August 27, 2019

story: “Open Water” author: Deb Olin Unferth year: 2017 where: Mio ufficio note: Flash a line: “She was so disappointed, in this, in them, had wanted much, was offering all, though he had asked for so little.” theme(s): Modern dating, social media

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Deb Olin Unferth, Open Water, UAE

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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Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 309

400 short stories: story 308