Nadia Bulkin is an Indonesian-American political scientist and author of short stories, largely in the

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genre.

Biography

Bulkin was born in Indonesia to a Muslim father and Christian mother. Her parents decided to leave Indonesia soon after the death of

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. She moved to

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with her family when she was 11. She graduated ''

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'' from

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with a degree in political science before earning her master's at

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's School of International Service. Bulkin currently works as a consultant in

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She is a senior associate at

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, a strategy and capital advisory group. Short stories by Bulkin have been published in ''ChiZine'', ''

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'', '' Three-lobed Burning Eye'', and the

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-edited anthology ''Aickman's Heirs''.

Awards and recognition

In 2018, she was nominated in the

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for both short fiction ("Live Through This") and Single-Author Collection (''She Said Destroy'', Word Horde, 2017).

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* 1987 births American horror writers American women political scientists American political scientists American University School of International Service alumni American women short story writers Barnard College alumni Living people People from Jakarta Writers from Nebraska Indonesian emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women {{US-story-writer-stub