Sharon May
| Sharon May | |
|---|---|
| Roles | Author; Photographer |
| Recognition | Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University (https://khmer.voanews.com/a/sharon-may-editor-and-author-of-in-the-shadow-of-angkor/3628414.html) |
| Subjects | History & Remembrance; Literature & Storytelling; Migration & Diaspora |
American writer, editor and photographer who edited two anthologies of Cambodian writing for Manoa.
Sharon May is an American writer, editor and photographer who taught English in Cambodian refugee camps and photographed them in 1985, and later researched the Khmer Rouge regime for Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights. She guest-edited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia, published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2004 with Frank Stewart, a collection spanning pre-war writing through about 2000. She is also an editor of the expanded successor volume Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages, alongside Christophe Macquet, Trent Walker, Phina So and Rinith Taing. She held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. (UBC Press author page; VOA Khmer interview; University of Hawaii Press, Manoa Cambodia volumes)