17th International Conference on the Short Story in English

17 - 21 June, 2025

Writers - Surnames K


Suzanne Kamata

American Suzanne Kamata was born and raised in Michigan, and is most recently from South Carolina, but she has lived in Japan for over thirty years. Her writing has appeared in Kyoto Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Real Simple, The Best Asian Short Stories in 2017, 2022 and 2023 and numerous other publications. She is the author of two short story collections, The Beautiful One Has Come (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2011) which won a Nautilus Silver Award, and a Next Generation Indie Best award; and River of Dolls and Other Stories  (Penguin Random House SEA, 2024). In addition, she has edited the anthologies The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan, 1997) and Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press, 2008).  Her most recent novel is Cinnamon Beach (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2024). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education.

Marjorie Kanter

Marjorie Kanter is the author of two books of short literary poem-like pieces and a third, a bilingual book, all based on life experience: I Displace the Air as I Walk,  and Small Talk, and  Field Notes/Notas de Campo, and the projects: 'The Saddle Stitch Notebooks', 'The Bagged Stories', Im/politeness: 100 days on Twitter for the London Word Festival, Mirror Mirror: A Performative Conversation with Yourself,  'Talking Cultures' in process, and a series of word/art installations for La Fundación Caixa, Lleida amongst other things.  She has given creativity writing workshops in the USA, Spain, Morocco and Germany. Kanter is particularly interested in the pragmatics of communication, ethnography and the use of writing for thinking, relation making, understanding, training and problem resolution...You will find samples of her work, a more detailed CV, and other things on her web: www.marjoriekanter.com



Cate Kennedy

Cate Kennedy is an Australian author widely published as a novelist, short story author, poet and essayist.  She studied Professional Writing and Editing at the University of Canberra and Literature Studies at the Australian National University and attained her PhD in Creative Writing by Research at La Trobe University in 2021, where her doctoral thesis was awarded the Nancy Millis Medal.  In her home country of Australia is best-known as a short story practitioner but has also published three volumes of poetry, a novel and a travel memoir.  Her two short story collections Dark Roots (2006)  and Like a House on Fire (2012) both published by Scribe, have both been on the Victorian VCE School Syllabus as teaching texts for several years and she has taught writing workshops internationally. . Both her novel and her short stories have been made into Australian audiobooks and her work has appeared widely in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. She has also been published in French, Mandarin and Farsi.  She is currently a faculty member of Pacific University’s MFA in Creative Writing program in Portland, Oregon, teaching both fiction and non-fiction.” 

Lily Kong

Lily Kong is an author and winner of Singapore’s  National Arts Council’s Beyond Words Competition in 2013. Her English language children books were nominated for the US Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Crystal Kite Awards and has been translated into Mandarin by a China publisher.

She has 4 books published with Epigram Publisher in Singapore –

Dad’s Too Busy

Dad’s For Sale

Dad’s At Home

Dad’s Dyslexic Too

She also has a book published by Akasaa Publishing in Malaysia –

The Girl who wears Two Watches

She has 5 Chinese books published in Singapore and China.


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