When war and genocide burst through Cambodia, Loung Ung was a 5-year-old girl scrambling to stay enough steps ahead of starvation, exhaustion, disease and the Khmer Rouge to survive.
Author: Putsata Reang
Putsata Reang is an award-winning journalist and author of the true crime book Deadly Secrets. In 2005, she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which allowed her to return to her homeland, Cambodia, where she began telling some of her own country’s tales. She is an alumna of Hedgebrook and Mineral School writers residencies. She is currently at work on a memoir. Photo by Kim Nguyen.