All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

Even though I'm not privileged in the money world, I'm privileged in other ways: I had greater access to education, I can travel, etc. It's the same with writing: the freedom to move in and out of different places, of different realms of existence, of different life forms.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.