Samantha Neugebauer

300 short stories:: story 173

Samantha Neugebauer

January 2, 2019

story: “The Paper Menagerie” author: Ken Liu year: 2011 where: Think Coffee…first short story of the new year. Hello, 2019! note: The first short story to win the Nebula, the Hugo and the World Fantasy Award a line: “The catalog said she was eighteen, loved to dance, and spoke good English because she was from Hong Kong. None of these facts…

2019 short stories

Ken Liu, literature, literature quote, NYC, Short Stories, short story, The Paper Menagerie, Think Coffee
300 short stories:: story 172

Samantha Neugebauer

December 24, 2018

story: “The Adventure of a Traveler” author: Italo Calvino year: 1958 where: Philadelphia Fox Chase train note: From Gli Amori Difficili a line: “The apartment was again in darkness. The train devoured its invisible road. Could Frederico ask more of life? From such bliss to sleep, the transition is brief.”

2018 short stories

Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino, philadelphia, septa, The Adventure of a Traveler

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 173

300 short stories:: story 172