author : Kao Kalia Yangfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kao-Kalia-Yang/192688460757662?ref=hlKao Kalia Yang is the author of The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father, which received the 2017 Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, and the PEN USA Literary Award. Her previous book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, also received the Minnesota Book Award. Yang, a regular contributor to NPR's On Belief, lives in Minneapolis.