About Daughter of Song:
While volunteering at a women’s prison, Doug stumbles upon Panna Krom’s story. A gut-wrenching tragedy that would send him on a meandering near-impossible mission to try to correct an appalling injustice.
Panna, the 17-year-old daughter of a Cambodian refugee family, went from hiding an unwanted pregnancy to being charged in a highly-publicized murder case. That ultimately earned her an 18-year sentence.
With no legal credentials, Doug exposes a broken criminal justice system which had ignored crucial facts and discovered other surprising prison sentences for crimes identical to Panna’s.
Daughter of Song is a gripping account of a bold attempt to right an irreparable wrong while spanning dangerous treks through the Khmer Rouge-controlled jungles of Cambodia and the suffering of wasted years behind bars.
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Author Bio:
Doug Hood was born in Detroit, attended grade and high schools in Asia, and studied at the University of Florida with a degree in Physics (Sigma Pi Sigma honors) and Yale University in the Physician Associate Program, where he was a Fellow at Pierson College.
Doug has been a Lecturer in Neurology at Yale University and a regular lecturer at the University of Southern California. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at Quinnipiac University.
He has published numerous short stories, a children’s book, and has essays in four anthologies. This is his first book.
He and Panna were keynote speakers at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and their program on NPR won the 2017 PRNDI award for best interview. He has been retained as a (pro bono) clemency expert for about a dozen incarcerated women in Connecticut and continues to work on cases.
Doug lives in North Haven, Connecticut with his wife and two children.