SHORT STORY WRITERS – CUENTISTAS

 Edgar Allan Poe  Gabriel García Márquez

 Alice Munro  Antón Chéjov
 Lydia Davis  Charles Perrault
 George Saunders  Charles Bukowski
 Lauren Groff  Jorge Luis Borges
 Mary Gaitskill  Julio Cortázar
 Curtis Sittenfeld  Juan José Arreola
 Ted Chiang <- Arrival is based on its short story "Story of your  Jorge Onelio Cardoso
life"  Salvador Elizondo
 Lorrie Moore  Augusto Monterroso
 Russell Banks  José Emilio Pacheco
 Ron Rash  Alfonso Reyes
 David Foster Wallace  Juan Rulfo
 Ken Liu  Adolfo Bioy Casares
 Caroline M. Yoachim  Felisberto Hernández
 Etgar Keret  Horacio Quiroga
 Wells Tower  Julio Ramón Ribeyro
 Junot Díaz  Roberto Bolaño

More short story writers (taken from reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/bdtez7/who_are_the_best_short_story_writers_of_the_21st/)
Literary short story authors
 Tobias Wolff
 Denis Johnson
 Lydia Davis
 Lorrie Moore
 Lucia Berlin
 Andre Dubus
 Richard Bausch
 Rick Moody
 David Means
 T. C. Boyle
 Stuart Dybek
 Robert Coover
 Chimamanda Ngozi
 Louise Erdrich
 Junot Diaz
 Jhumpa Lahiri
 Russell Banks
 Ben Fountain
 Ben Marcus
 Ben Lerner
 Mary Gaitskill
 Joy Williams
 Jeffrey Eugenides
 Don Delillo
 Gary Shteyngart
 Sherman Alexie
 Curtis Sittenfeld
 Julia Elliot
 Kevin Canty
 Joan Wickersham
 Ottessa Moshfegh
 Weike Wang
 Nicole Krauss
 Kristen Roupenian (she's a very new writer, whose story "Cat Lady" story in the New Yorker went viral in 2017. Roupenian has
recently put out a short-fiction collection but I haven't read it yet.)
Literary with occasional speculative, sci-fi, or magic realism elements
 George Saunders
 Margaret Atwood
 Karen Russell
 Karen Joy Fowler
 Kelly Link
 Lauren Groff
 Jonathan Lethem
 Adam Johnson
 Steven Millhauser
 Steve Erickson (not to be confused with Steven Erikson)
For genre fiction, here's just a sample, as I could list too many.
Science fiction / Fantasy
 Robert Reed
 Ted Chiang
 Neil Gaiman
 Ken Liu
 Yoon Ha Lee
 Samantha Hunt
 Charlie Jane Anders
 Adrian Tchaikovsky
 Michael Swanwick
 Bruce Sterling
 Alastair Reynolds
 Peter F. Hamilton
 Paul Di Filippo
 Gwendolyn Clare
 Catherynne M. Valente
 Elizabeth Bear
Horror
 Ramsey Campbell
 Joe R Lansdale
 Brian Evenson
 Joe Hill
 Jon Padgett
Weird lit / Lovecraftian horror
 Nathan Ballingrud
 John Langan
 Laird Barron
 Caitlín R. Kiernan