Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 235

Samantha Neugebauer

May 20, 2019

story: “The Females Are Not Coming Back” author: Rachel Heng year: 2016 where: casa dolce casa note: Anthropomorphism! a line: “You may have heard that we are a monogamous species. It is probably one of the reasons for all the plush toys and animated films, along with the fact that we cannot y. You seem to see…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Anthropomorphism, Rachel Heng, The Females Are Not Coming Back
300 short stories:: story 234

Samantha Neugebauer

May 19, 2019

story: “Aquacero” author: Patricia Engel year: 2019 where: Dubai at Big Gate’s, then at home note: This story was selected for the 2019 O. Henry Prize collection (first appeared in the Kenyon Review). a line: “’Survival requires different things of different people.’ I don’t know where in me this came from. It was something I hadn’t even…

2019 short stories

abduction, abuse, Aquacero, disappearing, fiction, kenyon review, O. Henry Prize Stories, Patricia Engel, Short Stories, stories, survival

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 235

300 short stories:: story 234