Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 273

Samantha Neugebauer

July 22, 2019

story: “Juliet” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 2013 where: sofa, then bed; night, then morning note: In my mind, this story took place in the Fox Chase Library in Philadelphia. a line: “She was a young woman, late twenties we thought, with long, loose hair. Her clothes were white, and at first we thought she was in uniform,…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Elizabeth McCracken, Juliet, Libraries, short fiction, Short Stories, UAE
300 short stories: story 272

Samantha Neugebauer

July 22, 2019

story: “How to Fall” author: Tom Barbash year: 2013 where: Gold sofa note: Skiing is always something that always seems so far away from my reality. a line: “I rode up to the snow-blessed hills of Vermont on a ski trip for singles. I did.” theme(s): Break-up, loss, grief, dating

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, How to Fall, short fiction, Short Stories, Stay Up With Me, Tom Barbash, 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 273

300 short stories: story 272