Alberta Natasia Adji is a Chinese-Indonesian writer from Surabaya, East Java, who currently lives in Perth, Western Australia. Before coming to Australia, she has published two novels in Indonesian language, Youth Adagio (2013), which is a young adult romance fiction, and Dante: The Faery and the Wizard (2014), a young adult fantasy fiction, a few short stories of coming-of-age genres in Jawa Pos, an Indonesian national daily newspaper based in Surabaya.
After coming to Australia, she continued to pursue her academic interests and successfully completed her PhD in creative writing from Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, in 2023. The Longing is her main component of her doctoral project and her first novel to be published in English. She was awarded the 2023 School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal by ECU for the quality of her doctoral research thesis. Two edited excerpts of The Longing have appeared in Meniscus and New Writing. She has also published her short fiction works in The in/completeness of human experience (Special Issue of TEXT-Journal of Writing and Writing Courses), which was later published as The Incompleteness Book (2020, Recent Work Press), and The Incompleteness Book II: Writing Back & Thinking Forward (2021, Recent Work Press) as well as refereed articles in various academic journals.
In 2024, she published an academic book, Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape, by Palgrave Macmillan. She enjoys food, detective novels, lengthy fantasy stories, nature walks and Studio Ghibli movies. Connect with her on Instagram: @albertanatasia
