Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 254 & 255

Samantha Neugebauer

June 9, 2019

story: “The Fifth Story” & “Happy Endings” author: Clarice Lispector & Margaret Atwood year: here and there 🙂 1950s & 1980s where: Abu Dhabi note: Putting these two together since their forms are similar. a line: “In the mouths of some of the cockroaches, there are traces of white powder. I am the first to observe the…

2019 short stories

Brazilian fiction, Canadian fiction, Clarice Lispector, Happy Endings, Margaret Atwood, metafiction, Short Stories, The Fifth Story
300 short stories: story 253

Samantha Neugebauer

June 8, 2019

story: “Wild Milk” author: Sabrina Orah Mark year: 2014 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: From Tin House a line: “In the hallway, I pass a mother covered in daughters. I count approximately five. I hold up my bundled son, like a form of identification. Like he will provide me safe passage across…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Motherhood, Sabrina Orah Mark, surrealism, Tin House, UAE, Wild Milk

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 254 & 255

300 short stories: story 253