Kao Kalia Yang

Details

Instance of

human

Born

17 December 1980

Place of birth

Ban Vinai Refugee Camp

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Kao, Kalia

Family name

Yang

Occupation

screenwriter, children's writer, writer, librettist, memoirist

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Guggenheim Fellowship

archives at

Carleton College

educated at

Carleton College, Harding Senior High School

employer

University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

ethnic group

Hmong Americans

languages spoken, written or signed

English

notable work

The Song Poet, Where Rivers Part, The Latehomecomer, The Latehomecomer

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