Bruce Sharp

The founder of the Mekong Network, Bruce Sharp lives in a very old house in Chicago, with three cats, two children, and one wife. He is currently the network administrator for a software development company, and maintains the Mekong Network websites in his spare time.

His photographs have appeared in several magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. His photos from Cambodia appear in David Chandler's biography of Pol Pot, Brother Number One, and on the cover of Richard Lunn's book, Leaving Year Zero.

He has been involved with Cambodian issues since 1987, when he began tutoring refugees for the Cambodian Association of Illinois, and for the Southeast Asia Center.

More recently, he has written several essays on the Iraq War, including a comparison of Iraq and Vietnam for the online journal Sobaka, and an analysis of the work of conservative commentator Michelle Malkin. He is currently working on several short stories and longer works of fiction, which he expects to languish indefinitely on the hard drive of his computer.