People from Bloomington

Tiffany Tsao is a literary translator and writer. Her translations have been awarded the PEN Presents and PEN Translates prizes. She has translated numerous Indonesian works, has written about literature in translation for Electric Literature, and is the author of The Majesties (2020), But Won’t I Miss Me (2026) and the Oddfits series. She holds a PhD in English literature from UC-Berkeley.

Budi Darma (1937–2021) was a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. Budi Darma received several national literary awards and his international honours include the Southeast Asian Writers Award (or S.E.A. Write Award) and the Mastera Literary Award. He held a PhD in English literature from the University of Bloomington, Indiana, and was a professor at the State University of Surabaya.