Villains: stories
Villains by Samantha Neugebauer is the winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize. Set across the United States and around the globe, Neugebauer’s debut short story collection follows characters longing for purpose, enchantment, and love. Bound by conflicts arising from social hypocrisy, self-mythology, and shame, often within mother-daughter relationships, these thirteen stories expose how we misread our lives, confusing what is large or small, lasting or illusory, meaningful or merely familiar. In Villains, Neugebauer delivers a stunning, seductive collection.
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Meet the Author
Samantha Neugebauer
Samantha Neugebauer is a lecturer at NYU Washington, DC, and a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds an M.F.A. from Johns Hopkins, a M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from NYU. Originally from Philadelphia, she spent nearly a decade working abroad and now lives in Washington, DC.
She is the winner of the 2025 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Award.