Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author, scholar, and feminist activist. Her latest novel, Night of a Thousand Hells, translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao, is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. A Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, she has also written The Wandering (2020), longlisted for the Stella Prize and winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and the story collection Apple and Knife (2018), part of Vintage Classics’ ‘Weird Girls’ series. She holds a PhD from New York University and is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University, Sydney. She co-founded the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.

Stephen J. Epstein is an Associate Professor at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, where his research focuses on contemporary Korean society and popular culture. A translator of Korean and Indonesian literature, his works include Who Ate Up All the Shinga? by Park Wan-suh, The Long Road by Kim In-suk, and Intan Paramaditha’s Apple and Knife and The Wandering. His translations have received a PEN/Heim Translation Award and a Korea Times Translation Prize.

Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. Her translations of Indonesian writing have been awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She is the author of But Won't I Miss Me and The Majesties. She holds a PhD in English from UC-Berkeley and works as Deputy Editor at Sydney Review of Books.