Penny Edwards is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Cambodge: The cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 (University of Hawai’i Press), awarded the Harry J. Benda Prize. Her literary essays and translations have featured in Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writings, Mekong Review and Words Without Borders.
