Yang, Kao Kalia

Kao Kalia Yang is the author of "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, "which was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and received the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Her work has been published in "Longreads" and the "Virginia Quarterly". Yang, who has taught at Columbia University and Concordia University-St. Paul, among other places, lives in Minnesota.