Sarah Bellamy puts her own stamp on Penumbra Theatre, founded by her father. Bee Yang is a respected traditional Hmong song poet of kwv txhiaj and a refugee of war. Author, poet and playwright Marcie ...

Award-wining Minnesota writer Kao Kalia Yang’s “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father,” is the sixth title in Minnesota Center for the Book’s One Book/One Minnesota. The announcement was made Monday by ...

When someone is transplanted from one side of the planet to the other, language is but the first of many barriers to cross-cultural understanding. Anyone who has become a refugee has likely ...

St. Paul Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang’s award-winning book “The Song Poet” is going to be an opera. Minnesota Opera announced Monday that it has commissioned “The Song Poet” for Project Opera, ...

When Kao Kalia Yang was just a tiny girl, her father used to put her on his shoulders and walk around their neighborhood in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, where she was born. As they walked, ...