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A blog of Laotian American Writer Bryan Thao Worra and various guests discussing Lao American literature

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Booking Bryan Thao Worra

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July 24, 2021July 22, 2021

Coming to Diversicon 28 7/30-8/1

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July 23, 2021

Krysada Panusith Phounsiri’s Every Passing Minute in International Examiner

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July 23, 2021July 22, 2021

SEAPOWRIMO 2021 Arriving

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July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

Moderating Legacies Library 7/26

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July 21, 2021July 23, 2021

To Gather Your Leaving reading in Duluth

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July 7, 2021July 7, 2021

Midstream Reading Series: July 8, 2021

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June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

World Refugee Day 2021 Reading

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June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Joyce Foundation Presents Artists As Connectors: Building Racial Solidarities in the Twin Cities

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June 9, 2021

Featured At NE Minneapolis Arts District

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About

Bryan Thao Worra is the president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, a 40-year old international literary organization celebrating the poetry of the imaginative and the fantastic. A Lao American writer, he holds over 20 awards for his writing and community leadership including an NEA Fellowship in Literature and was a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Games. In 2009 he received an Asian Pacific American Leadership Award from the governor’s Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans.

He also holds a 2011 Youth Media Innovation Award from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and won the 2014 Elgin Award for Book of the Year from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. He has presented at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Loft Literary Center, Intermedia Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, the Institute for Contemporary Art, among many others, and recently as a Visiting Artist with University of Merced Center for the Humanities. He is the first Lao writer to be professional member of the Horror Writers Association and trained several years with Asian Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy on social justice during their National Gender Equity Campaign.

One of the co-founders of the National Lao American Writers Summit, he is the author of 6 books, with work appearing internationally in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, and Pakistan.

You can support his work at: https://www.patreon.com/thaoworra

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