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 moved there from Guyana. He has a BFA and MFA in literature and writing from Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a Merit Fellowship for his MFA. He’s won a James Michener Fellowship, the Paul Bowles Fiction Award, and a C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship. His PhD is from the University of Houston’s creative writing and literature programs. He’s been shortlisted for American Short Fiction’s Award and Glimmer Train’s Open Fiction Contest and his fiction and essays have been published in Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Kyk-Over-Al, Wasafiri, The Antigonish Review, Trinidad and Tobago Review, Atlanta Review, Trinidad Noir, The Guyana Arts Journal, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Southeast Asian Review of English, The Caribbean Writer, The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, Seepersad & Sons: Naipaulian Synergies, Kultur, Short Story, The Caribbean Review of Books, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Quarterly and many other publications. He has taught at universities and colleges in the USA, the Caribbean, 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. His short story “The Himachal Leopard” appears in Unsaid: An Asian Anthology edited by Anitha Devi Pillai. His new book of stories, The Story of the Beach, is due in 2023. He is an Assistant Professor in English literature and creative writing at American University of Iraq, Baghdad.
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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