Tiffany Yo

Tiffany Yo is a Chinese Indonesian immigrant and writer. She reads essay submissions for The Rumpus, volunteers for Austin Bat Cave, and works with Asian and immigrant sexual violence survivors. She is a co-founder of Slipper Assembly, a community for Asian creatives. Tiffany is writing a memoir about a childhood of physical and emotional dislocation in Jakarta, Singapore, Memphis, and Phoenix. Home is Austin with her husband and their three cats.

Writing

“Indomie for Waiting” - Sierra Nevada Review, Vol. 37, Fall 2024

“To My Third Father” - The Rumpus, Fall 2024

Workshops & Seminars

2024

  • DISQUIET // T Kira Māhealani Madden // Everything But Plot: Building Suspense on the Line Level

  • Writing Co-Lab // Kim Liao // Capturing a Memory in a Moment: Flash Memoir

  • Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest (Denver, CO) // T Kira Māhealani Madden // The Self, The Selves

2023

  • Writing Workshops // Chloe Caldwell // Carving Out Space in the Literary World

  • Asian American Storytelling Summit (Austin, TX) // Jenny Tinghui Zhang

  • Writing Co-Lab // Brian Gresko // Reading for Craft: Best American Essays 2022

  • Writing Co-Lab // Brian Gresko // Essay Play: Generating Short-Form Nonfiction

  • Tin House Craft Seminar // Vanessa Chan // The Things We Carry: Generating Writing About Everything We Inherit

  • Kundiman // Matt Ortile // The Essay as “Attempt”: Making Sense of the World With Personal Essays

  • Anna Held // Writing About Family

  • Sarah Dohrmann // Diving Into the Wreck

2022

  • GrubStreet // Aimee Suzara // Belonging: Writing Home & Identity for Writers of Color

  • Writing Workshops // Blaise Allysen Kearsley // Sudden Truths: Writing Flash Memoir & Super-Short Personal Essay

  • Catapult // Anna Held // Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Essays about Family

  • Writing Workshops // Blaise Allysen Kearsley // Driving a Car at Night in the Rain: a Revision Intensive Seminar

  • Writing Workshops // Jill Talbot // Grieving the Quotidian: Writing Things We Lose

  • Blaise Allysen Kearsley // BIPOC Workshop

2021

  • Creative Nonfiction // Ploi Pirapokin // Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp