Putsata Reang

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]

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]