Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. Her story collection Apple and Knife is part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series, and her novel The Wandering was longlisted for the Stella Prize and received the English PEN Translates Award. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is co-founder of the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.Stephen Epstein is the Director of the Asian Studies Institute at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He translated Intan Paramaditha’s Apple and Knife.Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel The Majesties, and the Oddfits fantasy trilogy. Her translation of Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories, Mostly was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022.

"An unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood by a writer that is fearless. Fascinating."

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. Her story collection Apple and Knife is part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series, and her novel The Wandering was longlisted for the Stella Prize and received the English PEN Translates Award. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is co-founder of the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.Stephen Epstein is the Director of the Asian Studies Institute at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He translated Intan Paramaditha’s Apple and Knife.Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel The Majesties, and the Oddfits fantasy trilogy. Her translation of Erikson Pasaribu’s Happy Stories, Mostly was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022.

"An unforgiving tale of political horror and womanhood by a writer that is fearless. Fascinating."