Chath Piersath
Chath Piersath, born in. He was assigned to assist a local human rights organization, Human Rights Vigilance of Cambodia. He also helped an array of other local NGOs working on HIV/AIDS Prevention education and child rights issues. One of his exhibitions at the Java Cafe in Phnom Penh and also in Bangkok, Thailand and Kunming, China addressed those living with HIV and AIDS. He currently spends six months of the year working and living on a farm in his adopted country, the United States, and six months in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as a painter and writer.Publications
- This Body Mystery: paintings and poems, Abingdon Square Publishing, 2012
- "Mother & Son," River Muse:Tales of Lowell & The Merrimack Valley: an Anthology, Lloyd L. Corricelli & David Daniel, editors, Sons of Liberty, 2011.
- After: a book of poetry, Abingdon Square Publishing, 2009
- Sinat and the Instrument of the Heart by Chath pierSath, illus. by Vann Nath and Phal Phouriseth, Southprints, 2009.
- Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists: Artists of the American Mosaic, by Kara Kelley Halllmark, Greenwood Press, 2007.
- "Poems and journal," http://ecommunity.uml.edu/bridge/reviews5/piersath/index.htm, 1997.
- "Where the Road Begins, an anthology" - Cultural Organization of Lowell. Kathy Devlin, Matthew Miller, LZ Nunn and Gigi Thibodeau, eds. 2007
- "The way I want to remember my Cambodia," - The Merrimack Literary Review. Ron Rowland & Grey Water, eds. 2004
- "Inching toward acceptance," Commonwealth Magazine, June 2002
- Soul Survivors: stories of women and children in Cambodia, by Carol Wagner, Creative Arts Book Company, 2002.
- "An Invocation for Cambodia," Prayers of a Thousand Years. Elizabeth J. Roberts and Elias Amidon, eds. 1999.
- "Letter to my mother," Children of the Killing Fields: Memoirs of survivors. Compiled by Dith Pran, edited by Kim DePaul, ed. 1994.
