Seireyrith was born in Cambodia, at the beginning of the country’s revolution. Year Zero. It was a communist party (the Khmer Rouge) that took control of the country. Many of its own people were executed, starved and worked to death. Others were tortured into false confessions and then executed. Any sort of Western influences were considered an enemy of the new regime. He lost his father to this regime.

At a young age he experienced the atrocities of human nature. He experienced first-hand mass genocide. Fearing for their lives, his family fled to Thailand, and stayed at a refugee camp before getting a sponsor to go to the Philippines and then to the U.S.A. Ending up in Southern California, he learned a new language and culture, and grew up there. In this new country, his family experienced hardship and discrimination. They looked for jobs, and found some success in the American culture before tragedy struck the family, causing them to flee from a different monster.

Seireyrith joined the U.S. Marines for eight years giving his service to the American military and the U.S.A. He became a security guard after leaving the military, and  also worked various odd jobs. Although he attended college for several years in pursuit of a B.A. degree, he was compelled to halt his education prematurely. However, he still has plans of continuing his undergraduate and graduate studies in the future.

Through vocational education and training, he became a swim coach. The swim teams that he has trained have competed and excelled nationally. Upon relocating to the southeastern U.S., he was hired to coach several swim teams in South Carolina. Eventually, he was offered the opportunity to join a larger and more prominent swim team organization in Georgia. As a result of accepting the aforementioned swim coach position, he now resides in the North Atlanta area.

His poetry has been published in Reflections (A Journal of Art and Poetry); Poetry Cemetery,Void Magazine, and his prose have been featured by Pendium Publishing.

BORN ABANDONED AND LOST is a family saga loosely based on some of the experiences that he encountered while in the process of growing up. This is his debut novel.