Kao Kalia Yang Reading, presented by the Northwestern University Litowitz MFA+MA Program

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Kao Kalia Yang Reading, presented by the Northwestern University Litowitz MFA+MA Program

February 16 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Free

Please join us for a reading with Kao Kalia Yang, Litowitz MFA+MA Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-Residence. This event is free and open to the public.

Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, The Song Poet, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World, The Shared Room, The Most Beautiful Thing, and Yang Warriors. She co-edited the ground-breaking collection What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color. Yang’s 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, as Notable Books by the American Library Association, Kirkus Best Books of the Year, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award, and garnered four Minnesota Book Awards.

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Date:
February 16
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/597660

Venue

Hagstrum Room, 201 University Hall, Northwestern University English Department
Room 201, 1897 Sheridan Ave., Northwestern University English Department
Evanston, IL 60208 United States
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