Feminism, Horror, and Speculative Fiction

Join author-translator Tiffany Tsao and author-scholar Intan Paramaditha for a conversation around their respective new and forthcoming novels, But Won't I Miss Me (HarperCollins) and Night of a Thousand Hells (Europa). What is it about the tropes associated with horror and speculative writing that lend themselves to feminist modes of literary expression?

TIFFANY TSAO is the author of Under Your Wings, which was longlisted for the Ned Kelly Award and released in the US as The Majesties. Her translations of Indonesian fiction and poetry have been awarded the NSW Premier’s Translation Prize and PEN Translation Prize, as well as longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She holds an English PhD from UCBerkeley and works as Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books. But Won’t I Miss Me is her fourth novel.

INTAN PARAMADITHA is the author of Apple and Knife, part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series, and The Wandering, winner of the PEN Translates Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize. A Harvard Radcliffe Fellow and Civitella Ranieri Fellow, she is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and co-founder of the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan. Her new novel, Night of a Thousand Hells, will be published in October 2026.

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