Kao Kalia Yang - Author Talk

Kao Kalia Yang - Author Talk

Come hear Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Writer & Educator Kao Kalia Yang, as she reads from her ground-breaking books and shares her unique and universal perspectives on issues of the refugee experience, literacy, and how tutors can work best with children from refugee families.

Born a stateless child in a refugee camp, Yang’s journey of coming to America at the age of six, growing up in the housing projects and with the support of public resources will open our eyes to the experience shared by many of the children we tutor. Mark your calendars!

Yang is the award-winning author of the memoirs, The Latehomecomer, The Song Poet, Somewhere in the Unknown World, and Where Rivers Part. Yang co-edited the groundbreaking book, What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. She is a librettist for The Song Poet Opera (commissioned by Minnesota Opera). Her children’s books, A Map into the World, The Most Beautiful Thing, The Shared Room, Yang Warriors, From the Tops of the Trees, The Rock in My Throat, and Caged center Hmong children and families who live in our world, who dream, hurt, and hope in it. Yang’s middle grade debut fiction, The Diamond Explorer, contends with the narratives we are given and the ones we give.

Host or Publisher East Side Learning Center