Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 239

Samantha Neugebauer

May 28, 2019

story: “Breathe” author: Rachel Heng year: 2018 where: morning with coffee note: I love trees! How simple, how true a line: “But what if we are wrong? What if the hubris is justified, if this is indeed different from the lava and ice that we have faced before? What if this does not pass?” theme(s): Nature,…

2019 short stories

Breathe, fiction, First Person Plural POV, Rachel Heng, Short Stories, Singapore writers, trees
300 short stories:: story 238

Samantha Neugebauer

May 25, 2019

story: “Adventure” author: Sherwood Anderson year: 1919 where: Home with Big Gate note: Referenced in Charles Baxter’s Burning Down the House a line: “It is not him that I want,” she told herself; “I want to avoid being so much alone. If I am not careful I will grow unaccustomed to being with people.” theme(s): Unrequited…

2019 short stories

Adventure, american literature, Sherwood Anderson, Unrequited love

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 239

300 short stories:: story 238