Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, And Disorder In Indonesia

Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017) and the novella Red Skies in the Morning (Dim Shores, 2024). She is also the co-editor of the haunted house anthology Why Didn’t You Just Leave (Cursed Morsels, 2024). She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times; she won the Bram Stoker Award for her non-fiction essay “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia.” She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C.