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

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

Year of the Water Tiger 2022: Notes and reflections

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March 21, 2022March 29, 2022

Presenting at the Library of Congress, May 2nd, 2022

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March 19, 2022March 25, 2022

Featured in “We Need Each Other,” 2022

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February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

How Do Borders Cross Homelands: March 16th

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February 20, 2022

Kaysone Syonesa joins SEAD Project

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February 20, 2022

Remembering Will Green (1930-1972) Codename: Black Lion

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February 18, 2022

World Pangolin Day, 2022

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February 18, 2022

The Long Walk coming to theaters

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February 12, 2022February 12, 2022

Olympia Sunset, 2022

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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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