Putsata Reang
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Putsata Reang (born c. 1974) is a Cambodian-American journalist and author.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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.[1][4]
Career
[edit | edit source]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][3] and Jack Straw Cultural Center.[6]
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, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize,[9] and the Washington State Book Award.[10][8]
Reang teaches memoir writing at the University of Washington School of Professional & Continuing Education.[2]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Reang is married to a woman.[11][12] 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."[13]
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- 1970s births
- Living people
- American people of Cambodian descent
- Writers from Oregon
- Writers from Corvallis, Oregon
- American lesbian writers
- LGBTQ people from Oregon
- American writers of Asian descent
- 21st-century American women journalists
- 21st-century American journalists
- American women memoirists
- 21st-century American memoirists
- American LGBTQ journalists
- Lesbian journalists
- American LGBTQ people of Asian descent
- Cambodian emigrants to the United States