Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories: story 241

Samantha Neugebauer

June 1, 2019

story: “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden” author: Denis Johnson year: 2018 where: Le Brioche note: This is the title story from Johnson’s collection and is an assigned reading for my workshop class in Aspen Words. a line: “Rather than memorializing him, we found ourselves asking, ‘Who the hell was this guy?” theme(s): Aging, death, career

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Denis Johnson, fiction, Short Stories, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
300 short stories: story 240

Samantha Neugebauer

May 28, 2019

story: “House of Women” author: Susan Minot year: 1991 where: the gold sofa note: This story was brilliant not only for its evocative descriptions of coastal nature, but also because of its blatant realism about how women talking together can manage to “resurrect” our ex-boyfriends, lovers, and husbands. a line: “By the time the thunder had grown…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, House of Women, short fiction, Short Stories, short story, Susan Minot, The Paris Review, 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 241

300 short stories: story 240