Steve Boswell is from Washington, DC. In 1968 he joined the Peace Corps and was sent to teach at a Saharan oasis in northern Chad. He subsequently taught in Laos, the US, Kuwait, Burundi, Palestine, China, Turkey, Vietnam, Tibet, and finally Cambodia, where for nine years he was a lecturer at The Royal University of Phnom Penh. He currently resides in Phnom Penh.