Khet Mar

Khet Mar is a Burmese journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist who writes about the lives of ordinary people and the current situation in Burma. Initially trained as a chemist, Mar embarked on a writing career and published the novel Wild Snowy Night, four collections of short stories, three volumes of essays, and a translation of I Am Malala. She participated in the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and the International Writers’ Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong. She has been a featured writer at the PEN World Voices Festival, and a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, which provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of severe persecution in their native countries.