Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 237

Samantha Neugebauer

May 23, 2019

story: “Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver” author: River Solomon year: 2018 where: Al Reem Island note: Included in Best American Short Stories 2018 a line: “I want to tell her–know this: The world plays out as games of power, who has it, who doesn’t.” theme(s): Mothers and daughters, transgender, intergenerational…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, BASS, Best American Short Stories, Mothers and Daughters, River Solomon, Whose Heart I Long to Stop with the Click of a Revolver
300 short stories:: story 236

Samantha Neugebauer

May 22, 2019

story: “The Long-Distance Runner” author: Grace Paley year: 1974 where: The Louvre Abu Dhabi & home note: In this story, Paley reverses traditional black-white female race relations. It is a great story to read in conversation with Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ non-fiction book They Were Here Property. a line: “You in my house…. You do as I say.…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Grace Paley, Short Stories, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, The Long-Distance Runner, The Louvre Abu Dhabi, They Were Here Property, UAE, White Flight

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 237

300 short stories:: story 236