17th International Conference on the Short Story in English
17 - 21 June, 2025
Writers - Surnames V
John Vanderslice
John Vanderslice recently retired as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. Formerly he taught at Little Rock University, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and George Mason University. He has published over eighty short stories in anthologies and literary journals. His most recent novel is Nous Nous, an abduction drama, published by Braddock Avenue Books in 2021. In retirement, he works at drawing and painting as well as a historical novel about Robert Stroud, the man better known as “The Birdman of Alcatraz.”
Stephanie Vanderslice
Stephanie
Vanderslice teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and
directs the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop. Her most recent book is Teaching
Creative Writing: The Essential Guide (Bloomsbury 2024). In addition to her
novel, The Lost Son, she has published The Geek’s Guide to the
Writing Life: An Instructional Memoir for the Rest of Us as well as five
books and many essays on the teaching of creative writing. She is currently at
work on a memoir and another novel while thinking hard about the implications
of AI on the teaching of creative writing.
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