Chang Ying-Tai(張瀛太) is an award-winning Taiwanese novelist and short story writer. She earned her PhD in Literature from National Taiwan University and holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei.
Over the past decades, she has been the recipient of numerous major awards, including the China Times First Prize for Fiction and Prose; the United Daily Press First Prize for Fiction; the Central Daily News First Prize for Fiction; the Taiwan International Book Fair's Book of the Year Prize;the Award for Literary Writing from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education; and the Lennox Robinson Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts. She has also been a finalist for the Two-Million-Yuan Award for Fiction, one of the largest monetary prizes in Asian literature.
Chang Ying-Tai has authored three short story collections, and four novels, two of which – The Bear Whispers To Me and As Flowers Bloom and Wither – have been published as English translations by Balestier Press (UK) to considerable acclaim.
LIN Chun Ying 林俊頴 is the author of an essay collection and several short story collections, including 大暑 [The Longest Summer] (1991), 焚燒創世紀 [A Burning Notebook] (1997), and 鏡花園 [The Garden of Mirrors] (2006). His novel 我不可告人的鄉愁[The Nostalgia That Dare Not Speak Its Name] (2011) received the 2012 Taipei International Book Exhibition Prize. 猛暑 [Formosa Heat] received the 2018 Taiwan Literature Awards.
Lin has worked as a copywriter, newspaper editor, and in television.Sydney Alice Clark is a fiction writer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she lives in Paris. Awarded a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Sorbonne, she is an Associate Professor. Her short stories have appeared in both French and American journals: Journal of the Short Story in English, University of Angers; and Short Story, University of Texas at Brownsville, as well as anthologies Bridges: a Global Anthology of Short Stories, Temenos Publishing. Her poems have been published in French and English: Imaginaires, University of Nantes Press. Her short story manuscript collection, A Darker Shade of Light, was awarded first prize (Prix Manuscrit Technikart) at the Paris Book Fair (March 2011). She is a member of the Jury for English Short Story Fiction in Angers and teaches creative writing. Her work on Shakespeare and French theatre (William Shakespeare et Gérard de Nerval : le théatre romantique en crise : 1830-184, Paris: Harmattan, 2005) was short-listed for a research prize by Higher Education Associations: the SAES (Anglo-Saxon scholars) and the AFEA (American scholars) in France. Her literary criticism on short stories and theatre has been published in French and American reviews. She has also co-authored a book on the Anglo-Saxon short story (La nouvelle anglo-saxonne, une étude psychanalytique, Paris: Hachette).
Evelyn Conlon short story writer, novelist and essayist is widely translated, most recently into Tamil, Chinese and Greek. She is the editor/co-editor of four anthologies including Cutting the Night in Two and Later On. She has been writer-in-residence in many places at home and internationally, and is Adjunct Professor with Carlow University, Pittsburgh, MFA. Her last short story collection, Moving About the Place, 2021, was followed by Reading Rites: Books, writing and other things that matter, 2023, a collection of essays on the life. Telling Truths, a collection on her work, was edited by Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, published by Peter Lang, 2023.
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