Announcing our new Deputy Editor

We’re extremely pleased to announce Dr Tiffany Tsao as our new Deputy Editor.  

Tiffany is a writer and literary translator. She has previously worked as an editor at Asymptote and InterSastra. Her third novel, Under Your Wings, was longlisted for the 2019 Ned Kelly Award. Her translations of Indonesian fiction and poetry have been awarded the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She lives on Gamaragal land, holds a PhD in English from UC-Berkeley, and is a founding member of the seams – a small collective of individuals who translate Southeast Asian literature into English.  

SRB readers will already be familiar with Tiffany’s work, from her essays and reviews on translation and Indonesian literature to her editorship of The Circular, the SRB’s digital newsletter project.  

‘Tiffany brings with her not only the unique linguistic and critical intelligence of a world-class translator, but also an ability to connect local literary currents with international streams of thought and feeling,’ Dr James Jiang, the Editor of the SRB, has said. ‘Our contributors and readers have every reason to be as excited as the SRB team and our colleagues in the Writing and Society Research Centre are about Tiffany’s appointment.’ 

‘I am immeasurably delighted to be joining the SRB as its Deputy Editor’, Tiffany has commented. ‘I have long admired its work and workings – as a past contributor and avid reader, and, also, as erstwhile editor of The Circular. The world of critical thought is vast, spanning languages, cultures, and countries, and I look forward to continuing the SRB’s excellent work in deepening our appreciation of and involvement in that world.’ 

Tiffany begins in her role as Deputy Editor on March 24. 

We’d like to acknowledge the support of Creative Australia and Western Sydney University in making the Deputy Editorship possible.