Writers - Surnames L

Tammy-Ho Lai-Ming

Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born scholar, editor, poet and translator. She is the editor-in-chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the first English editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and a co-editor of Hong Kong Studies, currently the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to research on Hong Kong affairs. Tammy’s first collection of poetry is Hula Hooping (Chameleon, 2015), for which she won the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her first short story collection Her Name Upon the Strand (Delere Press), second poetry collection Too Too Too Too (Math Paper Press), and chapbook An Extraterrestrial in Hong Kong (Musical Stone) were published in 2018. She is also the author of the academic book Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave, 2019) and she has published widely on Hong Kong literature and culture. Over the years, Tammy has edited or co-edited a number of literary collections having a strong focus on Hong Kong, including 21/21 Anthology: Poetry from Hong Kong (Musical Stone, 2022), Twin Cities: An Anthology of Twin Cinema from Singapore and Hong Kong (Landmark Books, 2017), Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a Borrowed Place (Blacksmith Books, 2017), Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press, 2016), and Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz (Chameleon Press, 2014). She also guest-edited an e-chapbook of Hong Kong poetry published by Cordite Publishing (2020), a Hong Kong Feature for World Literature Today, the journal’s first annual city issue (Spring 2019), and the Hong Kong special issue of Svenska PEN’s PEN/Opp (2019). In addition to her writing, Tammy is a translator and her literary translations have appeared in World Literature Today, Chinese Literature Today, Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, among other publications, and in the 2015, 2017, and 2019 anthologies published by International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong. She was a Fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in 2023. Her third poetry book is If I Do Not Reply (Shearsman Books, 2024) and she is currently working towards a short story collection.

Maurice A. Lee

Maurice A. Lee is a Professor of English, an academic advisor, and a former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA), positions he held until his recent retirement. As a graduate student, he assisted the late Dr. Darwin Turner in establishing the second African American Studies program in the United States at the University of Wisconsin in 1969, with the first one being at San Francisco State University, under the leadership of Dr. Nathan Hare. Continuing similar efforts, he helped to develop the Women’s Studies Program at Temple University, and assisted in developing the African American Studies Programs at Haverford, Vassar, and Bard Colleges, between the years 1971-1985. Final effort in this regard was the development of the Gender Studies program At UCA in 2000. He has been the Director of the International Conference on the Short Story in English since 1994, under the direction of his mentor, the late Dr. Mary Rohrberger, one of the founders of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, the parent organization of the conference. He has written and published short stories, edited books on short stories, and written, produced and published both scholarly texts and articles on the genre. His hobbies are gardening, classical music and jazz, and reading.

David Lewis

David Lewis is originally from Oklahoma and now lives in France with his husband and dog. His short stories and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Joyland, Strange Horizons, The Weird Fiction Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Masters Review, Barrelhouse, Dark Horses, 21st Century Ghost Stories Volume II, The Fish Anthology, The Willesden Herald Anthology, Fairlight Books, Paris Lit Up and others. He's seeking out a publisher for his collection of creepy, comic short stories about queer Oklahomans and their families. He's currently working on a novel.

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Siwei Lim

Siwei Lim is a budding writer from Singapore. He has a Bachelor's in Communication Studies from Nanyang Technological University and a Master's in Education from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. In 2021, a Creative Writing module in his master's program taught by well-acclaimed author Dr. Anitha Devi Pillai inspired him to embark on the journey of becoming a writer. To date, he has published three short stories, and one has made it to the finalist of the London Independent Story Prize 2022. Besides writing, he runs an enrichment school for Japanese children aged 4 to 18, and is a local licensed tour guide in Singapore. In his free time, he performs as part of the Voices of Singapore, a 150-strong choir, and volunteers at a woodworking workshop. He enjoys meeting new people, traveling and mentoring youth. He is currently working on his new novel that is based on his 20-year journey in coping with anxiety.

Shan Ling

Shan Ling, pen name, resides in Austin. She has published essays and novels in prestigious newspapers and magazines both in China and the US, such as Novel Monthly, Mountain Flowers, People's Literature, Yangtze River Literature and Art, Hunan Literature, Xiangjiang Literature and Art Hong Kong Literature, Young Writers, The World Journal etc.

Translation Works from English to Chinese:

- Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Humanity" (2022), Modern Publishing House (Beijing)

- Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" (2022), Modern Publishing House (Beijing)

- Carson McCullers' short story collection "Songs of the Sad Cafe" (February 2018), Modern Publishing House (Beijing)

- Lao She's "Four Generations Under One Roof" (February 2019), Modern Publishing House (Beijing).

Literary Awards:

- Short Story "The Angle" won "The 16th New Threads Literature Award" Fiction Award (2022)

- Essay "Revelation in San Francisco Architecture" won the 8th "Heze Dulin Cup-City, Architecture and Culture" Prose Excellence Award (2020)

- Sino Monthly Literary Fiction Award (2012); Sino Monthly Literary Prose Award (2013, 2016).

- Essay "China Impression" won the "Views of Modern China" Essay Award (2013).

- Essay "The Faces of Seasons" won the 4th "Guanyin Mountain Cup. Beautiful China" National Travel Notes Essay Award (2016).

- Essay "The Reverie of Trees" was shortlisted for the 2nd Global Chinese Prose Competition (2016).

- Essay "New York New York" was selected as a Chinese textbook by New York University Steinhardt Chinese Curriculum.

- The collection of essays Reminiscences of Distant Mountains (2014), published by Han Century Digital Culture Company (USA), was initially selected for the 2019 CCTV New Year's themed literary program.

Gay Lynch

Gay Lynch reads and researches adjunct to Flinders University, which conferred her PhD. https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/gay.lynch. She received her MA at the University of Adelaide. Lynch writes essays, novels, papers, reviews, short-stories, and flash fiction, on unceded Boonwurrung land – part of the Kulin nation – and is active in national (ASSF) and international (ICSSE and APWT) short-story communities. ‘Hebe’s Lament,’ won the 2024 Creative Prose 1st Prize, American Association Australasian Literary Studies. She is presently pitching two collections of essays and stories published in The Best Australian Stories (2005), literary journals, TEXT, and trade anthologies. Unsettled (2018), a settler novel, was launched at ISAANZ.

17th International Conference on the Short Story in English