Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 269

Samantha Neugebauer

July 19, 2019

story: “Jerks” author: Karen Shepard year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: First weekend back from the USA a line: “The man I love now wants to know if I’ve ever gone out with someone as smart as I am.” theme(s): Relationships, men and women, love, sex

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Jerks, Karen Shepard, Kiss Me Someone, UAE
300 short stories: story 269

Samantha Neugebauer

July 13, 2019

story: “The Shared Patio” author: Miranda July year: 2007 where: Reed College at Writer Jim Shepard’s Close Reading Craft Talk. An amazing experience! note: I bought July’s book, No One Belongs Here More Than You, years ago at the cozy Barnes and Nobles on 6th Avenue in New York. That outpost has since closed. I…

2019 short stories

Barnes and Nobles, Jim Shepard, Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You, NYC, Reed College, Short Stories, The Shared Patio, Tin House

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 269

300 short stories: story 269