Writers - Surnames L

Kinneson Lalor

Kinneson Lalor is a writer and teacher. She followed a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge with an MSt in Creative Writing from the same institution while at the same time writing her first novel, teaching mathematics and computer science, and co-founding a supercomputing start-up. Her MSt dissertation explored how textual heterogeneity creates contrasting tensions in postmodern historiographic metafiction. Her fiction explores the space between disciplines, identities, histories, and truths, and her work has appeared in Best Microfiction and on the Bath Flash Fiction Award shortlist. She is currently writing a novel about Ada Lovelace and the challenges women faced in the 19th century scientific community. She is Australian, but has lived in Cambridge, UK for fifteen years. She is represented by Nelle Andrew at Rachel Mills Literary.

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.

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.

Chun Yin Lin

LIN Chun Yin 林俊頴 is the author of an essay collection and several short story collections, including 大暑 [The Longest Summer] (1991), 焚燒創世紀 [A Burning Notebook] (1997), and 鏡花園 [The Garden of Mirrors] (2006). His novel 我不可告人的鄉愁[The Nostalgia That Dare Not Speak Its Name] (2011) received the 2012 Taipei International Book Exhibition Prize. 猛暑 [Formosa Heat] received the 2018 Taiwan Literature Awards.

Lin has worked as a copywriter, newspaper editor, and in television.

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.

Mei Lu

Lu Mei is a children’s literature writer and works for Wenhui Daily under Shanghai United Media Group. She serves as a member of China Writers Association’s Literary Criticism Committee and a vice president of Bingxin Award Judging Committee. Specializing in youth literature and essays, she has published over 30 books, including Dreamer Lao Sheng’en, Free as a Butterfly, Endless Summer, Letters from Heaven, Hello, Childhood, Goodbye, Popona , and Kaleidoscope. Her awards include the National Outstanding Children’s Book Award, nomination for China Publishing Government Award, Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, Bingxin Essay Award, Bingxin Children’s Book Award, China’s Golden Crown Children’s Book Award, and the First Dongwu Literature Award. Her works are featured in anthologies such as Anthology of Chinese New Literature: Children’s Literature (1977–2000) and have been listed among “100 Outstanding Books Recommended for Youth” by the National Press and Publication Administration. Her novel The Book of Time won 2014 German White Raven Award, while As the Leaves Fall was adapted into a film. The essay Goodbye, Popona was selected for Chinese Contemporary Works Translation Project. Her novel Kaleidoscope received 2023 China Good Books Award and the 17th National Spiritual Civilization Construction “National Five Top Project” Book Award. Some works have been translated into English, Thai, Arabic, and other languages.

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