Writers - Surnames S

Maïca Sanconie

Maïca Sanconie , Ph D., is a writer and a literary translator from English and Italian into French. A freshly retired associate lecturer at Avignon University, where she co-directed the Master in Literary Translation, she co-organized several conferences on painting and on translation, such as : "A Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans and Europe", Université de Paris III (1994) ; "Literary Translation as Creation" (Avignon Université, 2015) ; "Towards an Anthropology of Translation? Divergences and convergences in cultures and heritages" (Avignon Université, 2017). She also wrote numerous articles on translation, notably for the journals Meta (University of Montréal) and Palimpsestes (Université de Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle). As a writer, she has published short stories in various journals as well as three novels with Quidam Editeur. She is currently writing a novel related to Jean Giono, and is in the process of publishing an epic poem inspired by a Renaissance painting.

Flora Schildknecht

Flora K. Schildknecht is the author of the short story collection Megafauna (2018), and she is Editor of the literarily journal The Louisville Review. Her short fiction has appeared in various journals and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her essays have appeared in The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, The Harold Pinter Review, and others. She received an MFA in Writing from Spalding University and a PhD in Comparative Humanities from the University of Louisville. Currently, she teaches fiction and nonfiction at Bellarmine University and teaches courses in global arts and literature at U. Louisville. Her love of travel has taken her to Singapore, Japan, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Argentina, Mexico, Ireland, Great Britain, and to Scandinavia and much of Europe. She lives in Louisville, KY, with her husband and their son.

Carmelinda Scian

Carmelinda Scian is a prize winning author who has been published in Litro, Belletrist, Prairie Fire, Accenti, the Fiddlehead, the San Antonio Review, Magnolia, the Antigonish Review, the Hong Kong Review, CaMel, Grain and other literary journals. “Yellow Watch” was nominated for the 2018 Journey Prize. Her first novel, Yellow Watch, The Journey of a Portuguese Woman, published by Mawenzi House Publishers in Toronto, was launched in 2022 and is completing her next short-story collection. “River Crossings” has been included in Best Canadian Short Stories, Biblioasis, 2023. Her work has been anthologized, the last story, “The Petals of Yellow Roses” in Pure Slush, Australia, 2024, and she has been a participant in various readings and conferences. She emigrated from Portugal and lives in Toronto.

Katie Singer

Katie Singer has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University where she taught writing, literature, and African-American studies for ten years. Subsequently, Singer taught for two years at Bard High School Early College in Newark, and then as faculty at Rutgers University-Newark in the departments of history, Africana/African-American Studies and American studies. She relocated to California in 2020 where she teaches writing and boxing while working on her next book based on Los Angeles’ Great Migration era.Dr. Singer has presented at conferences, in the U.S. and abroad, on topics that include preservation, oral history, racial justice, African-American literature, and African-American historical commemoration. Her book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark came out August 2024 with Rutgers University Press. She has also co-authored the memoir of a previously incarcerated writer, with Lived Places Publishing, entitled The Darkest Parts of My Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution.

Tracey Slaughter

Tracey Slaughter is a short story writer, poet and personal essayist from Aotearoa New Zealand, whose recent works include The Girls in the Red House are Singing (Te Herenga Waka Press, 2024), Devil's Trumpet (Te Herenga Waka Press, 2021), Conventional Weapons (Te Herenga Waka Press, 2019) and deleted scenes for lovers (Te Herenga Waka Press, 2016). Her work has received numerous international awards including The Moth Short Story Prize 2024, The Calibre Essay Prize 2024, The Manchester Poetry Prize 2023, The Fish Short Story Prize 2020, the Bridport Prize 2014, and two BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards in 2004 and 2001. In 2020 her novella if there is no shelter was runner-up in the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award and was published in the UK by Ad Hoc Press, and in 2018 she came second in The Moth Short Story Prize, was a finalist in the Mslexia Fiction Prize, and came second in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. She won the Landfall Essay Prize 2015 and was the recipient of the Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary in 2010. She teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato where she edits the journals Mayhem and Poetry Aotearoa. She has collaborated on a libretto with poet Nida Fiazi, and is currently working with Liam Hinton on a screenplay adaptation of her novella The Longest Drink in Town.

Anna Solding

Anna Solding is a writer, editor and publisher. She is the founder and managing director of MidnightSun Publishing, an Australian publishing company, and the co-founder and co-director of The Australian Short Story Festival. MidnightSun’s books have won both national and international awards and received high praise from reviewers for their innovative style and content. Anna is passionate about supporting writers, unearthing new Australian talent and she loves how far and wide her literary interests have taken her. Her ‘novel constellation’ The Hum of Concrete was published in 2012.

Kuan Sun

A Singaporean native of Beijing, Kuan Sun holds a Master of Arts from Nanjing University. Kuan Sun is a member of the Singapore Literature and Art Association, the Singapore Writers' Association, the European Chinese Literature PEN, and a permanent member of the Southeast Asian Chinese Poet Association, among others. Her literary career commenced in 2018. Since 2019, she published the autobiographical prose anthology The Best Is Meeting You, the poetry collection Over the Rivers and Sea, The Moon and Tulips, the non-fiction narrative A City under the Bleak Moon, and the fiction short story collections Love of Ice, Love of Fire, and The Singapore Lizard. A Variety of Tulips is a unique album showcasing both Kuan Sun's poetry and reproductions of her oil paintings.

Kuan Sun's poetic prowess has garnered numerous accolades. In 2019, she was awarded first place in the Three-line Poetry Competition. Her non-fiction story ‘Side by Side’ earned the ‘Outstanding Award’ distinction in the 4th Fangxiu Literature Award in 2021. In 2022, she claimed the first prize in the 4th Xinxingling International Chinese Poetry Competition. Her achievement was further solidified in 2023 with the 19th Dianchi Literature Award for the Best Southeast Asian Chinese Literature. Her poetry collection The Moon and Tulips was selected for the Annual Poetry Collection Award of the 6th Boao International Poetry Festival in the same year.

In January 2023, Kuan Sun held her inaugural solo oil painting exhibition at the Singapore Black Earth Museum.

Kuan Sun’s contact information

Address: Block 2C, Boon Tiong Road, #19-09, Singapore 166002

Tel: +65-90294305

Email: kuansun68@gmail.com

Wanning Sun

My name is Sun Wanning, and I am currently pursuing a Master of Education

(English) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My focus is creative writing, and my thesis examines how food in fiction can serve as a narrative form of memory, gendered identity, and cultural inheritance. My writing is shaped by both my background and experience as a bilingual writer earning to navigate between languages and cultures. I was born and raised in Nanking, China, a city where personal histories and collective memory are closely intertwined. I write stories set in contemporary Nanking, often focusing on the quiet moments of everyday life—things unsaid, tastes remembered, emotions passed through generations. Alongside my graduate studies, I also work as a writing instructor, where I help students through genre-based approaches. In the future, I hope to contribute to short story writing as a professional writer and English creative writing education in China as an educator. I aspire to help more people find their voices through storytelling.

17th International Conference on the Short Story in English