Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 204 & 205

Samantha Neugebauer

March 11, 2019

story: Two Stories about Emma “The Whirlpool Rapids” & “Walking on Water” author: Margaret Atwood year: 1987 where: home note: In every story you hope to find an aha moment, and in these two connected tales, I found more than one; this was particularly true for the line below, where a man acted just like this towards…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Margaret Atwood, men and women, The Whirlpool Rapids, Two Stories about Emma, UAE, Walking on Water
300 short stories:: story 203

Samantha Neugebauer

March 10, 2019

story: “Désirée’s Baby” author: Kate Chopin year: 1893 where: mio ufficio note: originally published in Vogue a line: “It was no wonder, when she stood one day against the stone pillar in whose shadow she had lain asleep, eighteen years before, that Armand Aubigny riding by and seeing her there, had fallen in love with her. That…

2019 short stories

Désirée’s Baby, Kate Chopin, Short Stories, short story, Vogue

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 204 & 205

300 short stories:: story 203