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Khet Mar is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist from Burma. She started writing short stories in 1989, while Burma was going through political turmoil. Most of her short stories are related to the lives and struggles of Burmese people.
She is active in feminist, environmental, and educational programs. In 2008, when Cyclone Nagis hit Burma, she established a group of volunteers for relief efforts and led them in supporting cyclone victims in delta region of Burma. Her group visited the delta 40 times and covered about 50 villages in nine townships. She is a co-founder of Green Heart Environmental Network, which was founded with several writers, poets, designers, and journalists. Members of this Network have mounted several exhibitions around saving the environment.
Author of the novel Wild Snowy Night, as well as several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, her work has been translated into English and Japanese, featured on radio broadcasts, and made into a film.
During the fall of 2007, she was a visiting fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is currently a writer–in –residence at the City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.

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