Mae Bunseng Taing is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia.
He also works in risk and finance in the metro New York area..
He is the foUnder of the Preah Vihear Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for preserving the hiStory of refugee rescue in Cambodia and the greater French Indochina region in the 1970s.
Over a decade ago, he began interviewing refugees before codirecting the HAAPI Film Festival award-winning documentary Ghost Mountain .
James Taing is the son of Mae Bunseng.
This is his first book.
Mae Bunseng lives in Connecticut with his wife, where they raised their children and where he has run a full-time home painting business for more than thirty years.
His Story and that of his family inspired the documentary Ghost Mountain , released in 2019 and directed by his son, James, and Virginia Dean.
Mae Bunseng Taing is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia