
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER
WRITING
BOOK: VILLAINS (SHORT STORY COLLECTION, FORTHCOMING; WWPH, JANUARY 2027)
SELECT FICTION: GIFTS (2024) / TIMESHARES (2024) / GRIER’S WORLD (2024) / MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE (2023) / VILLAINS (2023) / SACHI & THE YURT (2019) THE WORLD IS A GREAT AND PERFECT ANIMAL (2019)
SELECT ACADEMIC: STORIED MATTER & THE HUMAN RESPONSE IN: JOY WILLIAMS’S THE CHANGELING & SAMANTHA HUNT’S THE SEAS
SELECT BOOK REVIEWS & ESSAYS: THE MIND REELS: A NOVEL (2025) / ONE LOCAL WRITER’S VISION OF MAKE-BELIEVE LIVING (2025) / TO THE CASTLE BORNE (2025) / CONCERNING THE FUTURE OF SOULS – JOY WILLIAMS (2024) / METAMORPHOSES AT THE FOLGER THEATRE (2024) / WRONG NORMA – ANNE CARSON (2024) / FEEDING GHOSTS – TESSA HULLS (2024) / THE ILL-FITTING SKIN – SHANNON ROBINSON (2024) / EMILY WILSON & THE ILIAD (2024) / BAD QUESTIONS – LEN KRUGER(2024) / SO LATE IN THE DAY – CLAIRE KEEGAN (2023) / THE POWER OF GOOD QUESTIONS – DAVID BROOKS (2023) / DWELL HERE & PROSPER – CHRIS EAGLE (2024) / AMERICA FANTASTICA – TIM O’BRIEN (2023) / THE FRAUD – ZADIE SMITH (2023) / MOBILITY – LYDIA KIESLING (2023) / AFTER THE FUNERAL – TESSA HADLEY (2023) / THE LANGUAGE OF TREES – KATIE HOLTEN (2023) / BE CURIOUS. SOLVE PROBLEMS. DO GOOD. – STACEY ABRAMS (2023) / HAPPINESS FALLS – ANGIE KIM (2023) / HOUSE PARTIES – LYNN LEVIN (2023) / HARROW – JOY WILLIAMS (2023) / MOTHER CELL – JOY WILLIAMS (2022) / AMONG THE BEANWOODS & HEATHER – DONALD BARTHELME (2022) / SINK HOLE – DAVIDA BREIER (2022) / GHOSTS, COWBOYS – CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS (2022) / THE VIOLENT, COMPLICATED, MYTHBUSTING LUVES OF WOMEN (2022) / THE POWER OF THE VIGNETTE IN MRS. BRIDGE (2021) / INVISIBILITY – OTTESSA MOSHFEGH” (2020) / THE IMPOSSIBLE CITIZEN – JILL MAGI (2020) / ROADKILL FOR BEGINNERS – STEPHANIE CHAN (2020) TELL HER IT’S HER FAULT – JING-JING LEE (2019) / PORTRAIT OF MY BODY AS A CRIME I’M STILL COMMITTING – TOPAZ WINTERS (2019) / THE NIGHT TIGER – YANGSZE CHOO (2019) / JAPANESE CONNECTIONS AT THE LOUVRE ABU DHABI (2018) / FRIDA KAHLO – MAKING HERSELF AN EXHIBIT (2018) / TRAVELS & ARTISTS (2018)
SELECT INTERVIEWS: INSIDE THE SHORT STORY BOUDOIR (2025) / FREEDDOM FROM RELEVANCY: POET WALTER ANCARROW (2023)
SELECT POETRY: KATHARINE KEPLER’S CONFESSION (1546 -1622) / COLLAPSING (or listen here)
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