Bunkong Tuon

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Bunkong Tuon is a Cambodian American writer and poet. His work has appeared in Copper Nickel, New York Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Lowell Review, American Journal of Poetry, Diode Poetry Journal, among others. His debut novel, Koan Khmer, is forthcoming from Curbstone Press. He is poetry editor of Cultural Daily. Tuon teaches at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.

  • The cover to Koan Khmer by Bunkong Tuon

    Koan Khmer by Bunkong Tuon

    Bunkong Tuon
    Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books. 2024. 256 pages.Bunkong Tuon’s debut novel tells the coming-of-age story of a Cambodian American writer, Samnang Sok, written in the first person.…
  • A painting of a woman's head with an illustration of people in traditional dress instead of her face

    Four Cambodian American Poems

    November 2023
    Bunkong Tuon
    Liza Martin, Homelessness Home (2023), oil on canvas, 11 x 13 cm I’ve Been Border-Crossing All My Life after Anisa Rahim’s “A Russian Hacked My Pinterest Account”   I’m not talkin…