


It will be published by Harvill Secker in February 2020. Epstein, was published by Brow Books (Australia) and Harvill Secker (UK) in 2018. Her debut novel Gentayangan (The Wandering), selected as Tempo Best Literary Work for Prose Fiction in 2017, received the PEN Translates Award from English PEN and the PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. Her short story collection Apple and Knife, translated into English by Stephen J. Both her fiction and academic works explore the intersections between gender and sexuality, culture, and politics.

She received her Ph.D from New York University (2014). An Indonesian author and a lecturer in media and film studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.
