Asian Amerien Poet

Bryan Thao Worra is a Laotian American writer. His books include On The Other Side Of The Eye, Touching Detonations, Winter Ink, Barrow and The Tuk Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Cluster Bombs. He is the first Laotian American to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the United States government's National Endowment for the Arts. He was born as Thao Somnouk Silosoth in Vientiene Laos during the Laos Secret War. Bryan Thao Worra has written creatively from an early age, but began seriously writing in 1991. A widely published Laotian writer, his work appears in the Bamboo Among the Oaks anthology, as well as Whistling Shade, Urban Pioneer, Unarmed, the Asian Pacific Journal and the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance and the anthology Outsiders Within. Thao Worra's writing explores many themes including transience, identity and home. His style is frequently experimental and draws from a variety of modern and contemporary influences, including science fiction and horror. His first full-length book of poetry, On The Other Side Of The Eye was released in August 2007 from Sam's Dot Publishing, based in Iowa. He often writes as a freelance reporter for several Asian American newspapers including Asian American Press, interviewing numerous Asian American writers and artists as well as covering community events and programs.

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