About the Author

Tiffany Tsao is a writer, translator, and literary critic. She spent her formative years in Singapore and Indonesia before moving to the United States, where she graduated with a BA from Wellesley College and received a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently resides in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and offspring. Her debut novel, The Oddfits, was published in 2016, and her writing and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Asia Literary Review, LONTAR, the Sydney Review of Books, and the anthology BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016. Her translation of poetry by the Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu was one of the six winning entries in the 2016 Pen Presents . . . East & Southeast Asia competition, and her translation of Eka Kurniawan’s short story “Caronang” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.