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Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang (born 1980), a/k/a Kao Kaliya Yang, is a Hmong American writer and author of ''The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir'' from Coffee House Press. Her work has appeared in the ''Paj Ntaub Voice'' Hmong literary journal and numerous other publications. She wrote the lyric documentary, ''The Place Where We Were Born''. Her new book, titled "The Song Poet" will be published in 2016 by Metropolitan Books. Yang currently resides in Minnesota.
==Early life==
Born in Ban Vinai refugee camp in December, 1980, Yang came to Minnesota in the summer of 1987, along with her parents and older sister Dawb. Yang says that the move to America was necessary for her parents. Her mother suffered six miscarriages after giving birth to her, and with no male heir, her father was being pressured to find a second wife. He even took his younger daughter on trips with him to visit eligible women in the camp. For Yang's parents, leaving Ban Vinai was not only about finding opportunity for their two daughters, but also rescuing themselves from family and cultural pressure.
Yang says that while her sister mastered the English language quickly, she struggled for many years, finally discovering that her gift lay not in the spoken, but in the written word. Yang credits her older sister Dawb, with awakening an interest within her: "()verything was a Chinese movie in her head. So she would read Jack and the Beanstalk...() it became a Chinese drama. So in my head it was never Jack and the Beanstalk; it wasn't even Jack, it was a Chinese drama, flying around. That beanstalk wasn't a beanstalk, it was a mountain, and he was going to get this beautiful flower that would make his ailing mother live for a hundred years. And this is the kind of introduction I had to books." Yang also credits her 9th grade English teacher, Mrs. Gallatin, with recognizing and encouraging her talents. Upon graduation from Harding High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, she attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, though she was by no means certain of her future plans when she began her college career. 〔http://www.csp.edu/people/faculty/paul-hillmer/hmong-oral-history-project-interviews/kao-kalia-yang/〕
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