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Loung Ung អ៊ឹង លួង
Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
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Martha E. Kendall
American author and community college educator who co-wrote Nawuth Keat's Khmer Rouge survival memoir.
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Monica Sok
Cambodian American poet whose work addresses the Khmer Rouge period and its inheritance.
Author, Oral historian
Nawuth Keat
Cambodian survivor of the Khmer Rouge period who told his life story in the memoir Alive in the Killing Fields.
Author, Chef
Nite Yun ណែត យុន
Cambodian American chef and restaurateur in San Francisco and author of the cookbook My Cambodia.
Author, Journalist
Patricia McCormick
American journalist and young adult novelist whose novel Never Fall Down is based on the life of Arn Chorn-Pond.
Author, Educator
Peuo Tuy
Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
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Sokunthary Svay
Khmer American poet, librettist and scholar who co-founded the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.
Author, Educator
Sue J. Kim
Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Tien Nguyen
Los Angeles food writer and cookbook co-author who worked with Nite Yun on My Cambodia.
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Tracy Guan
Children's book author and founder of Tangerine and Jade Press, publisher of Khmer-themed picture books.
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U Sam Oeur
Cambodian poet and memoirist who survived the Khmer Rouge period and translated Walt Whitman into Khmer.
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Vaddey Ratner
Cambodian American novelist whose fiction draws on her survival of the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Chef
Visoth Tarak Ouk
Long Beach chef who founded Cambodian Restaurant Week and co-wrote a Cambodian cookbook and memoir.
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Pin Yathay
Cambodian engineer and author of the Khmer Rouge survival memoir Stay Alive, My Son.
Author, Journalist
Roger Warner
American author and journalist who co-wrote Haing S. Ngor's autobiography.
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Sharon May
American writer, editor and photographer who edited two anthologies of Cambodian writing for Manoa.
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Vickie In
Credited author of a bilingual Khmer and English board book retelling the story of Moni Mekhala.
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