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Prescott, Wisconsin
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American Public Media
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Ka Vang (born 1975) is a Hmong American writer in the United States. Vang was born on a CIA military base, Long Cheng, Laos, at the end of the Vietnam War, and immigrated to America in 1980. A fiction writer, poet, playwright,and former journalist, She has devoted much of her professional life to capturing Hmong folktales on paper. She is a recipient of the Archibald Bush Artist Fellowship and several other artistic and leadership awards. She is the author of the children's book, Shoua and the Northern Lights Dragon, a finalist for the 23rd Annual Midwest Book Awards in 2012.
Her short stories and essays have been featured in six anthologies including, “Riding Shotgun: Women Write about t
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