Tiffany Tsao

Writer / See Roots

She was born in San Diego, California and currently lives in Sydney, Australia
https://tiffanytsao.com/

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Photo courtesy / credit goes to Leah Diprose / Straits Times

A writer, translator, literary critic, editor, and human being. Her debut novel The Oddfits was published in February 2016. Her translations of Dee Lestari’s Paper Boats [Perahu Kertas] and Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Aruna and Her Palate [Aruna dan Lidahnya] are forthcoming from AmazonCrossing.

She was born in San Diego, California, and lived in Singapore and Indonesia through her childhood and young adulthood. A graduate of Wellesley College and the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a PhD in English, she has taught and researched literature at Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Newcastle, Australia. She holds an affiliation with the Indonesian Studies Department at the University of Sydney and is the Indonesia Editor-at-Large for Asymptote.1

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Book(s)


  BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016
Anthology
350 page(s), Math Paper Press


Also Mentioned in ...


Amazon expands its literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche (Apr 15, 2017)
Press Release: AmazonCrossing Announces Spotlight on Indonesian Literature (Oct 15, 2015)



Media Writing(s)


Worlds-Within-Worlds: A Testimonial, on Avianti ArmandLaksmi PamuntjakNh. DiniPramoedya Ananta Toer, published in Asymptote (Jan 19, 2015)
Nh. Dini’s Modernity, on Nh. Dini, published in Asymptote (Jan 01, 2015)
Notes from the Field: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2014, on Bunyamin FasyaDebra YatimMaggie Tiojakin, published in Asymptote (Oct 13, 2014)

Book Story(s)


Intan Paramaditha’s ‘Gentayangan’ crosses many borders (Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu), published in The Jakarta Post (Nov 13, 2017)
Pulp horror (Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash), published in Mekong Review (Nov 01, 2017)
Postcolonial Life and Death: A Process-Based Comparison of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Ayu Utami’s Saman (Saman) (Saman: A Novel), published in Personal Blog (Mar 01, 2014)

Media Clipping(s)


Weekly Dispatches from the Frontlines of World Literature, published in Asymptote (Apr 14, 2017)
Rethinking Censorship in Indonesia, published in Sydney Review of Books (Nov 06, 2015)

Books in Translation(s) / Editing(s)


The Birdwoman’s Palate, by Laksmi Pamuntjak
Paper Boats, by Dee Lestari

Work(s) in Translation


A History-to-Come of Helmbrellas: Their Features and Fates, by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, published in Transpacific Literary Project: Fluid (Dec 13, 2017)
On a Pair of Young Men in the Underground Parking Garage at fX Sudirman Mall, by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, published in Asia Literary Review — Issue 33 (Apr 01, 2017)
Making Instant Noodles at the End of the Rainbow, by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, published in Cordite Poetry Review — 57: CONFESSION (Feb 01, 2017)
From “Sergius Seeks Bacchus”, by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, published in Asymptote Journal – Jan 2017 (Jan 01, 2017)