Kimarlee Nguyen was born and raised in Revere, Massachusetts to a family of Khmer Rouge survivors. Her family’s traumatic but triumphant history, as well as her own experience of growing up in a traditional Cambodian household, has shaped the heart of her writing. She received her BA in English from Vassar College and is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. She is a full-time English teacher at The Brooklyn Latin School. Her fiction has previously appeared in Drunken Boat, Hyphen Magazine and CloudCity Press. "And in Your Eyes, it Looks Like … " is her second publication in Cha. [Fiction]