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 global lecturer at NYU based in Washington, DC, and serves as a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. Originally from a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Samantha holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Samantha has taught at Johns Hopkins, NYU 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 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.
She is the winner of the 2025 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Award.
WWPH Fiction Award 2025
