Writers - Surnames H

Dominique Hecq

Dominique Hecq is a widely anthologised and award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. She lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land (Naarm / Melbourne). Hecq writes in English and French. Her creative works comprise a novel, six collections of short stories and seventeen books of poetry. Together with Volte Face and Otopos her bilingual sequence, Pistes de rêve appeared in 2024.

Among other honours such as The Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Outstanding Writing and Spoken Word Performance, The Woorilla Prize for Fiction, The New England Review Prize for Poetry, The Martha Richardson Medal for Poetry, and the inaugural AALITRA Prize for Literary Translation (Spanish to English). Dominique Hecq is a recipient of the International Best Poets Prize administered by the International Poetry Translation and Research Centre in conjunction with the International Academy of Arts and Letters, and more recently, the James Tate for poetry.

Robin Hemley

Robin Hemley has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books are the autofiction, Oblivion, An After-Autobiography (Gold Wake, 2022), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020, Penguin SE Asia, 2021). He has previously published four collections of short stories, and his stories have been widely anthologized. His widely used writing text, Turning Life into Fiction, has sold over a hundred thousand copies and has been in print for nearly thirty years. His work has been published and translated widely and he has received such awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, three Pushcart Prizes in both nonfiction and fiction, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction, The Independent Press Book Award for Memoir, among others. His short stories have been featured several times on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” and his essays and short stories have appeared in such journals as Creative Nonfiction, Conjunctions, Guernica, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many others. He is the Founder of the international nonfiction conference, NonfictioNOW and was the director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years, inaugural director of The Writers’ Centre at Yale-NUS, Singapore, and is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is co-editor with Leila Philip of Speculative Nonfiction (Specualtivenonfiction.org) and co-founder of Authors at Large with Xu Xi (aalauthors.com). His websites are Robinhemley.com and Oblvion.cafe. His forthcoming collection of essays is How to Change History: A Salvage Project (Nebraska, 2025). Subscribe to his Substack at Robinhemley.substack.com

Rebecca Hill

Rebecca started writing creatively at school and had her first poem published in a national youth anthology, Zodiac, at the age of 11. She started writing short stories during her time at Sheffield Hallam University, where she studied for an undergraduate degree in English and a Masters degree in Writing. Whilst there she won the E. A. Markham Prize for Short Story, and saw her stories published in Dream Songs and two issues of Matter. In 2020 her entry was commended in the Hive South Yorkshire Short Story Competition, and in 2021 her work appeared in Test Signal: Northern Anthology of New Writing, published by Bloomsbury.

Whilst her writing has been on hold for a few years due to her re-training in psychotherapy, Rebecca hopes to develop her research into the arts and mental health and to continue writing where possible. She has particular interest in lyrical prose, prose adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, and explorations on the nature of female violence.

Emma Hislop

Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) is a writer living and working in Taranaki. Her first book, Ruin, was published in 2023 with Te Herenga Waka University Press and won the Hubert Church Best First Book of fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her fiction and non-fiction writing can be found in Headland, The Listener, Metro, Newsroom, The Spinoff, and Pantograph Punch. She has an MA with Distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She was the recipient of a 2024 Arts Foundation Springboard Award. In 2023 she was awarded the Michael King International Residency at Varuna House, Australia. She was the recipient of the Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary in 2021. Emma is part of Te Hā Taranaki, a collective for Māori writers, established in 2019. She is currently working on a novel.

Wen-Shing Ho

Dr. Wen-Shing Ho is a renowned filmmaker, writer, and academic, celebrated for her impactful contributions to film, music, and dance. Her film "TAKAO DANCER" (2013) has earned significant acclaim, notably praised by VARIETY for its unconventional narrative technique. This recognition is a testament to Dr. Ho's innovative approach to storytelling, with her work being showcased at esteemed festivals, including the Tokyo International Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and prestigious venues like the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and the Singapore National Gallery Theater.

In academia, Dr. Ho's dissertation on the musical composition techniques of Maurice Ravel and Toru Takemitsu in the context of digital cinema was selected for inclusion in the LABS Abstract Leonardo database in 2016. Her written works, including "Tear Love Smile" and "Rag and Bone," have received accolades, with the latter earning a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2020. Additionally, she presented her short story and paper "Game-Mode" improvisation: composing short stories with filmed diaries at the 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English in Singapore.

Dr. Ho's educational background includes a Doctor of Science in Screen Expression from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, graduate studies in Film Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Electronic Media from the School of Communications at American University in Washington, DC.

In her professional roles, Dr. Ho has served as an Assistant Professor at DeSales University, been a pioneer scholar at Nanyang Technological University (2005-2010), and acted as an associate researcher at Waseda University (2013-2014). Currently, she holds the position of a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Southern California and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University joint Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry in Shanghai, China. Dr. Ho's influential work spans filmmaking, academia, and creative expression, solidifying her as a notable figure in the global arts and culture landscape

Yi Hsiao

Yi Hsiao, born in Taipei, has studied and lived in the United States and Hong Kong. With a degree in architecture, Yi has worked at an architectural firm and in television production. Yi's works have been featured in Chiu Ko's Fiction Anthology, Chiu Ko's Essay Anthology, and the Lin Rong-San Literary Award for Essays. Yi is the author of the short story collection A Place Called the World (2020) and the novel Malibu (2021). Yi enjoys leisurely bike rides and chestnuts.

Li-wei Hsu

Hsu Li-wei, born in 1984, graduated from the Creative Writing and Literature program at Dong Hwa University. She currently serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the “UNITAS MAGAZINE" and has won the Editor-in-Chief Award in the Magazine category at the 45th Golden Tripod Awards.

She has written under the pen name "Godwind" focusing on women's issues. Her works include the novel "Girl Core," the film novel “HONEY PUPU" the essay collection "Ninety-Eight Percent Mediocre Girl," and film scripts such as "Design 7 Love" and "The Last Painting." Her latest work is the novel "I Have a Little Problem," which was nominated for the Taipei Book Fair Award.

Clarissa Hurley

Clarissa Hurley (MA, University of New Brunswick) is a freelance editor, writer, and theatre practitioner. She is the founding co-editor of the new literary journal, Camel. She is a former fiction editor with The Fiddlehead literary journal and edits regularly for Goose Lane Editions, a literary press based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

17th International Conference on the Short Story in English