17th International Conference on the Short Story in English
Writers - Surnames T
Nina Dai Tang
HaiYun, Nina Dai Tang, was born and raised in Nanjing, China. She came to the United States in 1987 to attend a university. She earned a B.S. in hotel administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Later, she earned an M.B.A. in Finance from the California State University in Hayward. She worked in a branch of Westin Hotel in Silicon Valley for three years, and then transferred to the high-tech companies of the computer industry as a finance and accounting manager, where she stayed for over twenty years. Past employers include IBM, Adobe, and Applied Materials, among others. She began her Chinese writing career in 2006, and many of her novels have been published both in the US and abroad, earning multiple awards in the process. Two of her novels are in production to be made into a TV show and movie, respectively. Her novel, Bingbao, has been inducted into the China National Museum of Modern Literature. She is a member of the Overseas Women Writers Association and the North American Writers Association. She is also the chairman of Overseas Window Writers Association and founder of Overseas Window, a Chinese website for original literature and content.
Tetsuya Terao
Terao Tetsuya is a fiction writer born in Taipei, Taiwan. Before becoming a full time writer, he had been a software engineer at Google for 8 years, working in Mountain View, Taipei and Tokyo. His first novel Spent Bullets (2022) won Taiwan Literature Gold Award and Bud Award. A movie adaptation of the same title is under active production. Terao’s work often involves depiction of the loneliness, voidness, and existential crisis of young professionals in tech industry. He was selected as one of the Readmoo Top 10 Popular Writers of 2023 and Eslite Most Anticipated New Writer 2023 finalists.
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Yu-Po Tsao
Yu-po, Tsao is a Taiwanese poet/novelist born in 1994. In 2017, he was awarded the first prize for poetry in the “Lin Rong San Literary Award,” making him the youngest first prize winner since the inception of the award. Later in 2018, he got his M.F.A degree from the Department of Sinophone Literatures, National Dong Hwa University. The same year, he published his first poetry collection I’m Afraid of the
Roof Tile.”（《我害怕屋瓦》）, which was nominated for the Open book
Goodreads Award in the "Goodreads of the Year Literature Category.” The poetry collection was also listed in the Ministry of Culture's "41st Students’ Book Selection.” He also received the "Taiwan Literature Golden Book Award" Petal Prize, which awards new writers with potential talent. “Sufferings under the shelter” is the theme of I’m afraid of the Roof Tile. As brooding continues, he gradually discovers a greater, more anonymous and irresistible oppression - the artificial Light. The idea became the theme of his second poetry collection Night’s Amnesty.”（《夜的大赦》）published in 2022. If the Light does harm, being Gewalt, maybe the boundless darkness is what really shelters us. This book was shortlisted for the "Taiwan Literature Golden Award", and was listed in the Ministry of Culture's "45th Students’ Book Selection ". The book also received the "Openbook Good Book Award" in the category of "Good Book of the Year in Literature".
In 2024, he published his first short story collection Love is a
Dysfunctional Brake.（《愛是失守的煞車》）, depicting how the malicious children of the 2008 Financial Crisis turned out as time passed. He is currently working on a novel about the Soviet Siberia labor camps where some Taiwanese worked during World War II.
International Conference on the Short Story in English 2025
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