Khet Mar

Bio: Khet Mar is a Burmese journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist who has actively written about the true lives of ordinary people and the current situation in Burma. Trained as a chemist, Khet Mar embarked on a writing career and published the novel “Wild Snowy Night” and "Night Birds" four collections of short stories, three volume of essays and a translation of “I am Malala”. Her works have translated into Japanese, Spanish, English and broadcast. In 2007 she participated in the prestigious International Writing Program at University of Iowa and in 2014, International Writers’ Workshop at Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong. In addition to her writing, Khet Mar is a community developer and environmental activist. She was also a volunteer teacher for a school aimed to help young children living with HIV/AIDS and worked as an organizer for other Monastic Orphanage Education Schools in Rangoon, Burma.  In 2009 she was a featured writer at the PEN Word Voices Festival, and was a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, which provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of severe persecution in their native countries. In April 2011, Khet Mar participated in Writers in Motion, which is sponsored through grant funds provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

Events: Day of Translation (2017)