17th International Conference on the Short Story in English
Writers - Surnames D
Chantal Danjou
Author of about thirty works (poetry, essay, prose), Chantal Danjou lives and works in Val de Chalvagne of Provence after a long Parisian sojourn. She gained her doctorate in 1985 from La Sorbonne on the lonely woman in Colette and Katherine Mansfield. She taught in that field for many years, nowadays supervising at University projects specifically focused on the experience of creative reading and writing. She was, too, director of the editorial board of the journal Decision (2020-2022). Since 1989 until 2022, she contributed to the field of contemporary poetry and poetics through the organisation La Roue Traversière [The Transverse Wheel] which she co-founded.
Amongst her more recent publications in poetry are, L’ancêtre sans visage, pictorial facing with Ena Lindenbaur, Ed, Collodion, 2016 for the artist’s book / 2017, for the current edition, La concomitante,Ed. Encres Vives, Colomiers, 2017, L’ombre et l’invisible, with Ena Lindenbaur, Les Cahiers du Museur, coll. A côté, Nice, 2017, Les neuf lumières, Les Phyllades, with Henri Yéru, Les Cahiers du Museur, coll. À côté, Nice, 2023 and the novels Les Jardins d’Essais, Ed. Orizons, 2017, Journal de la main, Ed. Orizons, 2017, Le souffle du noir, essay about Henri Yéru, Ed. Orizons, 2019, L’Ombre et le ciel Le Ciel et l’ombre, Ed. Orizons, 2021, Chienne de plainte, short stories, Ed. The Menthol House, 2021.
Her website is : http://www.sgdl-auteurs.org/chantal-danjou/index.php/pages/Biographie
Madeline D'Arcy
Madeleine D’Arcy is a fiction writer based in Cork City, Ireland.
Her début short story collection, WAITING FOR THE BULLET (Doire Press, 2014) won the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Prize 2015 (UK). Her second collection of linked short fiction, LIBERTY TERRACE (Doire Press, 2021) was awarded a FAPA Bronze Medal 2022 (US) and was Cork’s One City One Book 2023. Madeleine co-edited CORK STORIES (Doire Press, 2024) with fellow Irish writer Laura McKenna. She has completed her first novel. She is currently working on a second novel and on a third short story collection. Madeleine is a qualified solicitor in Ireland and the UK. She is represented by Brian Langan of Storyline Agency.
Noelle Q. De Jesus
Filipino American based in Singapore, Noelle Q. de Jesus, has been writing short stories all her life, and is the author of two short story collections, Cursed and Other Stories (Penguin Random House SEA, 2019) and Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for the Short Story, Blood Collected Stories (Ethos Books, 2015). One of her short stories was included in the 2021 Robin Hemley Xu Xi Bloomsbury Editions anthology, The Art and Craft Asian Stories. De Jesus pioneered flash fiction in the Philippines with the flash fiction anthology series, Fast Food Fiction: Short Short Stories To Go (2003) and Fast Food Fiction Delivery (2015). In 2023, she co-conceptualized and edited Missed Connections: Microfiction from Asia and published her English translation of Philippine National Artist Ricky Lee's premiere novel, For B or How Love Devastates Four Out Of Every Five Of Us. Her work has been published in fine literary journals in Southeast Asia and the United States, including, Puerto del Sol, Witness, New Limestone Review, Mud Season Review, Jentayu, and others. In 2023, she was a Fellow at the renowned University of Iowa International Writing Residency. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green University in Ohio, and with her husband, has raised a daughter and son.
Tamas Dobozy
Tamas Dobozy is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He has published four books of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, Siege 13: Stories, and Ghost Geographies: Fictions, along with a limited-run collaborative work with artist Allan Kausch, 5 Mishaps. Siege 13 won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for both the Governor General's Award: Fiction, and the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Dobozy has published over ninety short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta; won an O Henry Prize in 2011, the Gold Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards in 2014, with a shortlisting and honorable mention again in 2022; and appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories in 2017 and 2023. His scholarly work—on music, utopianism, American literature, the short story, and post-structuralism—have appeared in journals such as Canadian Literature, Genre, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Mosaic, and Modern Fiction Studies, among others. He has also published chapters in peer-reviewed anthologies published by Routledge, University of Nebraska Press, University of South Carolina Press, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
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