Storytelling and Resilience w/ Kao Kalia Yang

<p>During tough times we need to find ways to endure. Award-Winning Writer Kao Kalia Yang shares stories and advice for times such as these. Through the power of storytelling and wisdom from her family, we help you learn about the importance of endurance and resiliency.</p><p>~ ~ ~ </p><p><a href="https://kaokaliayang.com/" target="_blank">Kao Kalia Yang</a> is an award-winning Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs <i>The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet</i>,and <i>Somewhere in the Unknown World. </i>Yang is also the author of the children’s books, <i>A Map Into the World</i>, <i>The Shared Room, </i>and <i>The Most Beautiful Thing. </i>She co-edited the ground-breaking collection <i>What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Indigenous Women and Women of Color</i>. Yang’s literary nonfiction work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the PEN USA literary awards, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize, and garnered three Minnesota Book awards. Her children’s books have been listed as an American Library Association Notable Book, a Zolotow Honor, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, winner of a Minnesota Book Award in Children’s Literature and the Heartland Bookseller’s Award. Kao Kalia Yang is a recipient of the McKnight Fellowship in Prose, the International Institute of Minnesota’s Olga Zoltai Award for her community leadership and service to New Americans, and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ 2019 Sally Award for Social Impact. </p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p>Support the show on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/norlund" target="_blank"><strong>@norlund</strong></a></p><p>Check out more details about the show at <a href="https://www.chrisnorlund.com/podcast" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.chrisnorlund.com/podcast</strong></a></p><p>Follow on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/chris_norlund" target="_blank"><strong>@chris_norlund</strong></a></p><p>Follow o