[1][2][3] In 1975, when she was a baby, her family left war-torn Cambodia and escaped to a naval base in the Philippines.
Reang has won fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation[6][3] and Jack Straw Cultural Center.
[6] Reang's memoir Ma and Me, about her family's escape to the United States and her difficult relationship with her mother, came out in 2022.
[10][8] Reang teaches memoir writing at the University of Washington School of Professional & Continuing Education.
[11][12] As she wrote in a 2016 "Modern Love" column for the New York Times, "I’m gay, or a version of it.