Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 227

Samantha Neugebauer

May 11, 2019

story: “Watchdog” author: Nick Almeida year: 2016 where: 客厅，大门 (di nuovo) note: short short story from Baltimore Review a line: “Later, she left for Montana with Neal—the man from the computer, Pap called him—and the dog went too.” theme(s): Womanhood, strength, parenthood

2019 short stories

Baltimore Review, fiction, Nick Almeida, short short stories, Watchdog
300 short stories:: story 226

Samantha Neugebauer

May 10, 2019

story: “Mercedes Kane” author: Elizabeth McCracken year: 1994 where: 客厅，大门 note: Always on the search for more stories about mothers and daughters. a line: “She was sure she would’ve been great in her twenties, thirties, forever, if she had just been encouraged to greatness early on.” theme(s): Mothers and daughters, genius, child prodigy, parenthood

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Elizabeth McCracken, Mercedes Kane, Mothers and Daughters, short fiction, Short Stories, short story, 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 227

300 short stories:: story 226