Corinne Purtill is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Orange County Register, the Arizona Republic and Stanford Magazine. She has reported from Cambodia, South Africa and the Mexican border, and her photography has been featured at the International Center in New York. She is currently at work on a non-fiction book about one indigenous family's amazing fight for survival in the Khmer Rouge's Cambodia.

For freelance writing and editing inquiries, please contact corinne.purtill at gmail dot com.

Please view my photography gallery at RedBubble.

Why Purple Mango? In Khmer, the same word - svay - can mean either the color purple or the mango fruit.* To a journalist, it's a reminder that there are many different ways to interpret a single event, and that there are often surprising connections between us.
(*It also means syphilis, but that's less charming.)

Photo: Susan Whitney-Wilkerson