Arts and media

Creators

Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.

Watercolor of an artist studio with an easel, a film camera, a chapei lute and a typewriter
Illustration inspired by an arts school in Battambang.

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Loung Ung

A Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.

Chef Nak

A Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.

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16 creators

Author, Educator

Anthony Veasna So

United States

Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.

Author, Educator

Bunkong Tuon

United States

Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.

Author, Educator

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

United States

Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.

Author, Educator

Christine Su

United States

Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.

Author, Educator

Christoph Strobel

United States

Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.

Author, Educator

Erik W. Davis

United States

American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.

Author, Educator

Franklin E. Huffman

United States

American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.

Author, Educator

George Chigas

United States

Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Educator, Filmmaker

Julie Mallozzi

United States

Julie Mallozzi is a Boston-based documentary filmmaker and teacher who directed Monkey Dance.

Author, Educator

Martha E. Kendall

United States

American author and community college educator who co-wrote Nawuth Keat's Khmer Rouge survival memoir.

Author, Educator

Monica Sok

United States

Cambodian American poet whose work addresses the Khmer Rouge period and its inheritance.

Author, Educator

Peuo Tuy

United States

Khmer American spoken word poet and community organizer who helped found the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.

Author, Educator

Putsata Reang

United States

Cambodian American journalist and memoirist, author of Ma and Me.

Author, Educator

Sokunthary Svay

United States

Khmer American poet, librettist and scholar who co-founded the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association.

Author, Educator

Sue J. Kim

United States

Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Author, Educator

Tracy Guan

United States

Children's book author and founder of Tangerine and Jade Press, publisher of Khmer-themed picture books.

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