Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 252

Samantha Neugebauer

June 8, 2019

story: “Marta Ranunculus Wolf Calf” author: Gillian Barlow Graham year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: Reminds me of Kelly Link! a line: “The merman and his children enjoyed playing with the clay, so they sculpted it into a slender humanoid body about one and a half times as tall as an…

2019 short stories

Gillian Barlow Graham, Marta Ranunculus Wolf Calf, Mermaids, Short Stories, speculative fiction
300 short stories: story 251

Samantha Neugebauer

June 8, 2019

story: “Angel in the Architecture” author: Zoe Young year: 2018 where: Abu Dhabi, last day of Eid holiday note: From McSweeney’s 53 (the celebration issue, complete with balloons!); apparently American composer Frank Ticheli wrote a score by the same name (with a plural). a line: “’It was built by Octavin and Marcus Agrippa’–meaningless–“after the battle of Actium”–meaningless–“when…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Angel in the Architecture, Angels in the Architecture, McSweeney’s, short fiction, Short Stories, Zoe Young

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 252

300 short stories: story 251