Editors

Guest Editors

Sharon May worked for Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights—living and working in Cambodia while researching the Khmer Rouge regime—and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She guest-edited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia (the summer 2004 volume of MĀNOA) and a feature on Cambodian literature for Words without Borders.

Christophe Macquet is a writer, translator, and photographer. From 1994 to 2004, he was a professor and coordinator of a literary translation program at the Department of French Language of the Royal University of Phnom Penh. Among his many translations from Khmer to French are Génial et Génital, short stories by Soth Polin (2017); and L’Accusé by Khun Srun (2018). His latest book of poetry is DÂH: Dans la nuit khmère (DÂH: In the Khmer Night), from Éditions Lurlure, 2022.

Trent Walker is a postdoctoral fellow of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and a specialist in the manuscripts and chanting practices of mainland Southeast Asia. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and translations on the religious, musical, and literary histories of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. His first book, Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia, is being released by Shambhala Publications in December 2022.

Phina So co-founded Kampu Mera Editions in 2015, an independent press that publishes contemporary short stories, anthologies, novels, and translations. In 2016, she co-founded Slap Paka Khmer, an informal writers’ collective in Phnom Penh, and in 2017 she founded the Khmer Literature Festival. Her writing has been published locally and internationally in translation. She is the knowledge, network, and policy program manager at Cambodian Living Arts.

Rinith Tang is an award-winning Cambodian journalist and translator. He began his journalism career at the Phnom Penh Post, reporting on various topics in Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries. He has received the Ulrich Wickert International Journalism Award for Children’s Rights for his story “Children of the Night” and multiple nominations for SOPA / WAN-IFRA Excellence in Feature Writing. He is a deputy editor at the Khmer Times.

Series Editor

Frank Stewart is an emeritus professor in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the founder of MĀNOA. His most recent volume of poetry is Still at Large (El León Literary Arts, 2022). His edited books concern the literature and environment of Asia and the Pacific. He is a recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, Elliott Cades Award for Literature, and Hawai‘i Governor’s Award for Literature.

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