RAMAYDA AKMAL completed her baccalaureate and master’s degrees at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, and her doctoral’s degree at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg. Ramayda is a lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University. Her novel Jatisaba won the 2010 Jakarta Arts Council Novel Writing Competition. In 2017, her second novel, Tango & Sadimin was the Runner-Up in the UNNES International Novel Writing Contest. Her latest work Aliansi Monyet Putih was published in 2022. She written several academic books, including Pahlawan dan Pecundang, Militer dalam Novel-Novel Indonesia (2014) and Melawan Takdir, Subjektivitas Pramoedya Ananta Toer dalam Novel Perburuan (2015).