Aaron hokanson and kao kalia yang author
My husband, Aaron Hokanson, has been a stay-at-home parent for the life of our children and this gives me the freedom of heart to venture.
When the COVID pandemic intensified last spring, Yang's husband, Aaron Hokanson, planted a rose garden....
Kao Kalia Yang
American writer
Kao Kalia Yang (born ) is a Hmong American writer and author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir from Coffee House Press and The Song Poet from Metropolitan Press.
Her work has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong literary journal, "Waterstone~Review," and other publications. She is a contributing writer to On Being's Public Theology Reimagined blog.
Award-winning Minnesota writers Kao Kalia Yang and John Coy, who will talk about their new picture books in a virtual conversation this week.Additionally, Yang wrote the lyric documentary, The Place Where We Were Born. Yang currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1]
Early life
Born in Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in December, , Yang came to Minnesota in the summer of , along with her parents and older sister Dawb.[2] 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
