![]() ![]() Yang’s literary nonfiction work has been recognized by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, and garnered three Minnesota Book awards. Her newest title is Somewhere in the Unknown World, a collective memoir of refugee experiences. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Indigenous Women and Women of Color. Yang is also the author of the children’s books, A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, and The Most Beautiful Thing. ![]() The Song Poet has been commissioned as a youth opera by the Minnesota Opera and will premiere in the spring of 2021. The Latehomecomer is the first Asian American authored and centered book to be added to the roster of the Literature to Life Program and a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. Yang is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir and The Song Poet. She is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University. Kao Kalia Yang is an award-winning Hmong-American writer. ![]()
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