She has translated a number of Indonesian writers into English, including Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Budi Darma, and Dewi Lestari.
[2][1] She did a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, finishing in 2009, and formally studied the Indonesian language there as well.
[2] Her novel about a Chinese Indonesian family, Under Your Wings, was published in Australia in 2018 and released in the US and UK as The Majesties in 2020 to largely positive reviews.
[7] She got the opportunity to start translating Indonesian literary works to English when Indonesia was featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
[3] She translated a number of works in the late 2010s, including Paper Boats by Dee Lestari (2017) and The Birdwoman's Palate by Laksmi Pamuntjak (2018).