Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 285

Samantha Neugebauer

August 11, 2019

story: “By the River” author: Joyce Carol Oates year: 1969 where: Abu Dhabi, Gate Tower I Gym note: As I approach the 300 short story mark, I have been thinking of doing a top 15 list. Mentally, I have been traveling back to some of my favorite short stories I have read over the last…

2019 short stories

American Dream, By the River, Fathers and Daughters, Joyce Carol Oats
300 short stories: story 284

Samantha Neugebauer

August 9, 2019

story: “Indian Camp” author: Ernest Hemingway year: 1924 where: post-Flywheel, casa dolce casa note: For some summer fun, I’ve enrolled in Oates’ MasterClass (I have many thoughts on these classes for another time) and this short story was part of an assignment. a line: “’No, I don’t have any anesthetic,’ his father said. ‘But her screams are not…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, american literature, Ernest Hemingway, Indian Camp, joyce carol oates, Masterclass, Short Stories, 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

300 short stories: story 285

300 short stories: story 284