Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 257

Samantha Neugebauer

June 14, 2019

story: “Paul’s Case” author: Willa Cather year: 1905 where: Seattle (I feel cool just being here!) note: A true gem of the American canon; a classic! a line: “He felt now that his surroundings explained him.” theme(s): Transformation, cities vs. country, time, homosexuality, isolation

2019 short stories

Paul’s Case, Seattle, short fiction, Short Stories, Willa Cather
300 short stories: story 256

Samantha Neugebauer

June 10, 2019

story: “Our Mothers Before Them” author: Jenny Zhang, who I stumbled upon at Shakespeare & Company last summer in Paris year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: From the NYer, “Sour Heart is a feminist bildungsroman—the narrators act upon their world just as much as the world acts upon them—and it depicts, from start to finish, a…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Jenny Zhang, long short story, Mothers and Daughters, Paris, shakespeare and Company, Sour Heart, 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 257

300 short stories: story 256