Chath pierSath Author

Chath pierSath was born in Battambang, Cambodia in 1970. He holds a bachelors degree in International Service and Development from World College West/New College of California in San Francisco, and a masters degree in Community Social Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he lived and worked for seven years after he returned to Cambodia in 1994 to volunteer in the human rights field with the Cambodian American National Development Organization. The author of two collections of poetry, After and This Body Mystery, and a childrens book, Sinat and the Instrument of the Heart, his writing has also appeared in various publications. Known internationally for his visual art, he has shown his work in Asia, Europe, and North America. He lives and works on a family farm that grows fruits and vegetables in Bolton in the Nashoba Valley of central Massachusetts. His poems and prose have appeared in many magazines and anthologies including Children of the Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors, Consequence Magazine, Café Review, Where the Road Begins, Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell, Prayers for a Thousand Years: Blessings and Expressions of Hope for the New Millennium, MagicalCambodia.com, and others.