Samantha Neugebauer

Rebecca Makkai “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” | Short Story #336

Samantha Neugebauer

March 17, 2020

story: “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” author: Rebecca Makkai year: 2020 where: Quarantine note: This is a new story from the Spring 2020 issue of The Paris Review; the first paragraph is gorgeous and reads like a fairy tale. For people interested in stories of female utopias (Charlotte Perkins Gillman,…

2020 Short Stories

A Story for Your Daughters A Story for Your Sons, female utopia, Rebecca Makkai, The Paris Review
C. Namwali Serpell “The Sack” | Short Story #335

Samantha Neugebauer

February 10, 2020

*This video has many problems: lighting, weird ending, excessive “likes”…apologies.

2020 Short Stories

fiction, Namwali Serpell, short fiction, Short Stories, The Sack, Zambia, Zambian fiction

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

Rebecca Makkai “A Story for Your Daughters, A Story for Your Sons” | Short Story #336

C. Namwali Serpell “The Sack” | Short Story #335