Sokunthary Svay
Sokunthary Svay | |
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| Born | Sokunthary Svay Thailand (refugee camp), Thailand |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Sokunthary Svay is a Pushcart-nominated[citation needed] Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx. She and her family were refugees from Cambodia who survived the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. She is the poetry editor for Newtown Literary, and a founding member and Board President of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association (CALAA). Svay was a subject in New York Magazine’s “Living in a Sanctuary City” portfolio and featured in the New York Immigration Coalition’s This is Our NY, broadcast in Times Square. She has been published in Women's Studies Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, LONTAR, and Mekong Review, Perigee, and the Margins. She is a recipient of the American Opera Projects' Composer & the Voice Fellowship for 2017-2019. Her first poetry collection, Apsara in New York (Willow Books), was published in 2017 and had a debut at Poets House.
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- Memories, Diaspora and Verse: An Interview with Sokunthary Svay
- Literary Partners Program: Book Launch for Apsara in New York with a Reading by Poet Sokunthary Svay and Discussion on “Reimagining Khmer American Narratives”
- Of Apsaras in Diaspora: A New Voice in Khmer Poetry
- No Radio at Asian American Writers Workshop
- Introducing our new Poetry Editor, Sokunthary Svay
- A Child of Cambodian Refugees Finds Her Past Through Poetry
- Sokunthary Svay - Willow Arts Alliance Fellow
- Sokunthary Svay at Have Book Will Travel
- Sokunthary Svay at Hyphen Magazine
- When A Nation Loses Its Literature
- Sokunthary Svan and Maung Chaw Nwe "Mental Vomit" at Mekong Review
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