Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the adult memoir The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Yang’s many children’s books include Caged, From the Tops of the Trees, A Map Into the World, The Most Beautiful Thing, and The Rock in My Throat. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and her work has earned numerous honors, including finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Chautauqua Prize, and the PEN USA literary award, and winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and four Minnesota Book Awards. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family, and teaches and speaks across the nation.