Persimmon Tobing

Persimmon Tobing is an Indonesian-American trans woman—raised in New Jersey, but a California girl. She is a Kundiman fellow and the recipient of a scholarship to the Tin House Summer Workshop. She is currently at work on a manuscript called “What Makes Us Girls”, a novel-in-stories centering a trans woman’s misbehavior. When she isn’t writing, you can find her hitting winners on the tennis court, talking trash, or yearning relentlessly under the half-full moon.