Samantha Neugebauer

400 short stories: story 301

Samantha Neugebauer

August 16, 2019

story: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” author: Flannery O’Connor year: 1953 where: Sum of Us note: I read this story real slow today, drinking lemon ice tea. Maybe the slowest I ever read it, and in this slowness, it felt more violent than ever. a line: “Behind them the line of woods gaped like a…

2019 short stories

A Good Man is Hard to Find, dubai, Flannery O’Connor, short fiction, Short Stories, UAE
300 short stories: story 300

Samantha Neugebauer

August 12, 2019

story: “An Insolvable Problem of Genetics” author: Josef Skvorecky year: 1966 where: Casa dolce casa note: A writer of ‘text-appeals’ in the mid-sixties in Czechoslovakia, which “somewhat resembled the celebrated jazz-and-poetry readings in San Francisco in the Beatnik Era, only it had nothing to do with poetry, although there was plenty of Jazz,” says Skvorecky. a line: “While…

2019 short stories

An Insolvable Problem of Genetics, autofiction, Czechoslovakian literature, Josef Skvorecky

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 301

300 short stories: story 300