Trent Walker is a scholar of Southeast Asian music, religion, and literature, currently based at Stanford University. His articles and translations from Khmer, Pali, Sanskrit, Thai, and Vietnamese have appeared in Words Without Borders, Peace Review, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, and several edited volumes. At present, he is working on an anthology of Khmer literature as well as an intellectual history of translation in precolonial Southeast Asia. www.trentwalker.org