Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 217

Samantha Neugebauer

April 15, 2019

story: “The Excursion” author: Joy Williams year: 1972 where: Dining hall on Saadiyat note: What a fascinating story construction; Williams moves seamlessly in and out of childhood and adulthood of the protagonist. a line: “Jenny lies a little. She is just a little girl, a child with fears. She fears that birds will fly out of the…

2019 short stories

books, fiction, Joy Williams, short fiction, Short Stories, The Excursion
300 short stories:: story 216

Samantha Neugebauer

April 15, 2019

story: “The Wedding ” author: Joy Williams year: 1972 where: home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play note: The ending reminds me of the Chagall painting “Over the Town”…also his “Wedding” but not as much! a line: “The people in Elizabeth’s fables were always looking for truth or happiness and they were always being…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, chagall, fiction, Joy Williams, literature, short fiction, Short Stories, The Wedding, 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 217

300 short stories:: story 216