Putsata Reang Explained

Putsata Reang (born) is a Cambodian-American journalist and author.

Early life

Reang was born in Cambodia and raised in Corvallis, Oregon.[1] [2] [3] In 1975, when she was a baby, her family left war-torn Cambodia and escaped to a naval base in the Philippines.[4]

Career

Reang's writing has appeared in appeared in the New York Times, Politico,[5] the Guardian, and elsewhere.

Reang has won fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation[6] and Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Reang's memoir Ma and Me, about her family's escape to the United States and her difficult relationship with her mother, came out in 2022.[7] It won the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award,[8] and was also a finalist for the 2023 Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lambda Literary Award.

Reang teaches memoir writing at the University of Washington School of Professional & Continuing Education.

Personal life

Reang is married to a woman.[9] [10] As she wrote in a 2016 "Modern Love" column for the New York Times, "I’m gay, or a version of it. I came out to my mother in my 20s as gay because there is no word in our Khmer language for bisexual."[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Putsata Reang Authors . 2023-05-11 . Macmillan . en-US.
  2. Web site: Journalist Putsata Reang shares an immigrant daughter's story in 'Ma and Me' . 2023-05-11 . www.wbur.org . 17 May 2022 . en.
  3. Web site: "In memoir writing, vulnerability is the highest rigor": An Interview with Putsata Reang . 2023-05-12 . blog.pshares.org. 17 May 2022 .
  4. Web site: 2022-05-30 . Putsata Reang finds home with and away from her mom in memoir 'Ma and Me' . 2023-05-11 . The Seattle Times . en-US.
  5. Web site: Reang . Putsata . Opinion My Family Fled Cambodia as the Americans Evacuated. Here's What I Hope for Afghan Refugees. . 2023-05-12 . POLITICO . en.
  6. Web site: 2022-05-17 . Ten Questions for Putsata Reang . 2023-05-12 . Poets & Writers . en.
  7. Web site: himani . 2022-08-18 . Putsata Reang's New Memoir Reckons With Lost Family History . 2023-05-12 . Autostraddle . en-US.
  8. Web site: Ma and Me . 2023-05-11 . Macmillan . en-US.
  9. Web site: Ma and Me: A Memoir Washington Independent Review of Books . 2023-05-11 . www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com.
  10. Web site: Talk to the Practitioner: Putsata Reang . 2023-05-11 . The Writer . en-US.
  11. News: Reang . Putsata . 2016-07-15 . At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-05-12 . 0362-4331.

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