Tiffany Yo

Tiffany Yo is a Chinese Indonesian immigrant and writer. Her work has been published in The Rumpus and Sierra Nevada Review. She reads essay submissions for The Rumpus and 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. She now lives in Austin, Texas.

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)

Community Organizing

Slipper Summit: A Day of Storytelling & Solidarity for Asian Creatives
Austin Asian American Film Festival, the Austin Public Library, and Slipper Assembly (2025)

Slipper Assembly, Slipper House
Yellow Ranger and Slipper Assembly (2024)

Advanced Workshops

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

Workshops & Seminars

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)

GrubStreet
Aimee Suzara, “Belonging: Writing Home & Identity for Writers of Color” (2022)

Independent Workshops
Anna Held, “Writing About Family” (2023)
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)

WritingWorkshops.com
Chloe Caldwell, “Carving Out Space in the Literary World” (2023)
Blaise Allysen Kearsley, “Sudden Truths: Writing Flash Memoir & Super-Short Personal Essay” (2022)
Blaise Allysen Kearsley, “Driving a Car at Night in the Rain: a Revision Intensive Seminar” (2022)
Jill Talbot, “Grieving the Quotidian: Writing Things We Lose” (2022)