Tiffany Yo

Tiffany Yo is a Chinese Indonesian immigrant, writer, community organizer, and lawyer. Her work has been published in The Rumpus and Sierra Nevada Review, and she is a 2026 Periplus Fellowship Finalist. Tiffany reads essay submissions for The Rumpus and is a co-founder of Slipper Assembly, a community for Asian creatives.

She is writing a memoir about a childhood of physical and emotional dislocation in Jakarta, Singapore, Memphis, and Phoenix. She now lives in Austin.

You can reach out to Tiffany at hi.tiffyo[at]gmail.com.

Publications

“Indomie for Waiting”
Sierra Nevada Review, Vol. 37 (2024)

“To My Third Father”
The Rumpus (2024)

“On Estrangement During the Holidays”
Asian Family Support Services of Austin (2024)

Advanced Workshops

Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest
Denver, Colorado (2024)
T Kira Māhealani Madden, “The Self, The Selves”

Readings

Asian American Resource Center, An Evening with Tones (2025)

Slipper House: Community Showcase (2024)

Spend Time Zine Mart, Monthly Zine Party (2024)

Selected Community Events

Stories, Stillness, & Connection: Gathering in Grief
A community discussion at the Asian American Community Center to explore grief through culture, solidarity, and storytelling at the Asian American Resource. Held in partnership with Slipper Assembly. (2026)

Slipper Summit: A Day of Storytelling & Solidarity for Asian Creatives
An event in partnership with Austin Asian American Film Festival, the Austin Public Library, and Slipper Assembly, featuring literary readings, improv workshop, zine-making workshop, and short films screening. (2025)

Slipper Rewind: End of the Year Celebration
A one-year celebration for the Slipper Assembly community featuring community awards, results of the community census, and social bingo. Held in partnership with Yellow Ranger, a restaurant which developed a dumpling sampler for the event. (2024)

Slipper House: Community Showcase
In partnership with Gia Đình Goods, Slipper Assembly held a one-day community showcase featuring 20 artists across mediums. The showcase featured art displayed within Gia Đình Goods’s storefront in addition to live music and literary readings. (2024)

Selected Education

Austin Asian American Film Festival
Jenny Tinghui Zhang, “Asian American Storytelling Summit” (2023)

Catapult
Anna Held, “Writing Essays about Family” (2022)

Creative Nonfiction
Ploi Pirapokin, “Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp” (2021)

DISQUIET
T Kira Māhealani Madden, “Everything But Plot: Building Suspense on the Line Level” (2024)

Independent Workshops
Blaise Allysen Kearsley, “BIPOC Workshop” (2022)
Sarah Dohrmann, “Diving Into the Wreck” (2023)

Kundiman
Matt Ortile, “The Essay as ‘Attempt’: Making Sense of the World With Personal Essays” (2023)

Left Margin LIT
Shze-Hui Tjoa, “Writing in the Body’s Voice” (2025)

Tin House
Vanessa Chan, “The Things We Carry: Generating Writing About Everything We Inherit” (2023)

Writing Co-Lab
Brian Gresko, “Reading for Craft: Best American Essays 2022” (2023)
Brian Gresko, “Essay Play: Generating Short-Form Nonfiction” (2023)
Kim Liao, “Capturing a Memory in a Moment: Flash Memoir” (2024)