Leth Oun , a native of Cambodia who survived the Killing Fields, is a veteran United States Secret Service officer.
He holds a bachelor\'s degree in journalism From the University of Georgia, an MA in English From Rutgers University-Newark, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction From Goucher College..
He has had journalism appear in the New York Times , Washington Post , Philadelphia Inquirer , The Boston Globe , and various magazines, as well as essays, short stories, and poems in literary journals.
All three novels are highlighted in a critical essay in Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives , which was published by the University Press of Mississippi.
His first novel, Calling , was published in 2005, and was reissued in 2014 as an e-book by Mysterious Press.com/Open Road.
His most recent novel, Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel , was released in 2015.
Joe Samuel Starnes has published three critically acclaimed novels, including Fall Line in 2011, which was selected to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution \'s Best of the South list.
He and his wife, Sophy, also a survivor of the Killing Fields, have been married since 1985 and have two grown children.
Before going to work for the federal government in 2000, he held numerous jobs that ranged From working as a bank teller to clerking at convenience stores to washing dishes for $3.15 an hour.
He is a 1998 graduate of Widener University where he majored in sociology and minored in criminal justice.
A political refugee who immigrated to Maryland in 1983, he became an American citizen in 1990.
He has protected presidents and vice presidents in four administrations in forty-nine states and more than a dozen countries.
Leth Oun , a native of Cambodia who survived the Killing Fields, is a veteran United States Secret Service officer
