English version:
Soe Tjen Marching is an academic, creative writer and a composer. Her book The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women was published by the Edwin Mellen Press. As a creative writer, her works have been published in Australia, Indonesia and the United Kingdom; and she has won several creative writing competitions in Australia. As a composer, she won a national competition for Indonesian composers in 1998 held by the Association for Indonesian Composers (AKI) and the German Embassy. One of her compositions was released in the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde – Indonesia played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. She now teaches at SOAS – University of London, as well as an honorary Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia.
