Kim Philley was born in Singapore and grew up in Indonesia, Thailand, and Virginia. A former Henry Hoyns Fellow in Poetry at the University of Virginia, she has been based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the past two years. As a writer and editor specializing in cultural affairs coverage, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Caravan, Phnom Penh Post, Southeast Asia Globe, The Idaho Statesman, Indiana Review, and AGNI Online. She is the author of the forthcoming “Two Deaths,” a short story set in Phnom Penh’s Nigerian underworld (Epiphany, Fall/Winter 2011). She is currently working on a novel.

contact: kimphilley@gmail.com