17th International Conference on the Short Story in English
17 - 21 June, 2025
Writers - Surnames J
Tyrone Jaeger
Tyrone Jaeger is the author of the novel Radio Eldorado, the story collection So Many True Believers, the cross-genre novella The Runaway Note, and is co-founder of the multimedia project AV Arkansas: Citizen Storytellers. His writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Southern Humanities Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and he has been a member of the faculty at Hendrix College since 2008. Born and raised in the Catskill Mountains, Tyrone lives on Beaverfork Lake, Arkansas, with his wife and daughter.
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Keith Jardim
Keith Jardim is from Port of Spain, Trinidad; his parents emigrated there from Guyana, South America. His PhD is from the University of Houston’s creative writing and literature programs. He’s won a James Michener Fellowship, The Paul Bowles Fiction Award, been shortlisted for American Short Fiction’s Award, and Glimmer Train’s Open Fiction Contest among other honors. His writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Kyk-Over-Al, Wasafiri, The Antigonish Review, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Southeast Asian Review of English, The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, Seepersad & Sons: Naipaulian Synergies, Short Story, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Quarterly and elsewhere. He’s taught at universities in the Caribbean, the USA, Bermuda, the Middle East, and Malaysia. Jardim’s first book, Near Open Water: Stories was a semifinalist for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; later that year, it was included on World Literature Today’s Nota Bene list, among other honors. A new book of stories, Dreams of the Jungle and Sea, is due in 2025. He has fiction forthcoming in, BIM: Arts for the 21st Century (Barbados, West Indies), Connecting Worlds: Ibero-Caribbean Narratives and Cross-Cultural Diasporas (Peter Lang: Oxford/Berne/NY), and War, Literature & the Arts (USA). He’s an assistant professor of literature and writing at American University of Iraq, Baghdad.
Zhou Jianing
Zhou Jianing, female, is a writer and translator who graduated from Fudan University with an MA in contemporary literature. Based in Shanghai, China, Zhou Jianing has been active in the literary field since 2000, having published seven novels and three short story collections. The most recent work, released in September 2022, is a novellas collection titled A View of Waves. In addition to writing, Zhou Jianing translates literary works from English to Chinese. The latest translation project is Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Previous translation efforts include works by prominent English-language authors such as Flannery O’Connor, Alice Munro, Raymond Chandler, J.M. Coetzee, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. Zhou Jianing has received numerous accolades, including Zhongshan Biennial Award, Chinese Young Writer Award, Shanghai Literature Award, and a fellowship from the Iowa International Writing Program. In 2008, Zhou Jianing co-founded Newriting, a magazine book focused on literature, artand youth culture. Since its inception, Newriting has published 25 books and serves as a platform for young writers and artists to create, collaborateand share their work. The publication highlights cutting-edge international writers and artists while also promoting and translating the works of domestic talents for global audiences. Under Zhou Jianing’s leadership as editor director, Newriting boasts an impressive team of writers and editors and a readership exceeding 100,000.
Stacey Margaret Jones
Stacey Margaret Jones is an Arkansas writer and researcher whose debut novel Mr. Catherine was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer New Horizon Award in 2020. She writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and her poem “Pale” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches in the English and Creative Writing departments at the University of Central Arkansas, and She is currently at work on her third novel while her second is out on review. She’s a native of De Smet, South Dakota, and has earned degrees from Northern State University, Syracuse University and the University of Central Arkansas. She is married to novelist and medieval scholar Jay Ruud.
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