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As a Lao poet who was adopted by an American pilot as an infant just weeks before the last American bomb fell on Laos, my lifetime has been....
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotian American writer
Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1, 1973) is a Laotian American writer and poet.
Bryan Thao Worra is an American author of Laotian descent.
Thao Worra is the first Laotian American to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the United States government's National Endowment for the Arts. He was selected to represent Laos during the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Early years
Bryan Thao Worra was born Thao Somnouk Silosoth (Lao: ທ້າວ ສອມນກຸກ ສກິລອສອທ)[citation needed] in Vientiane, capital of the Kingdom of Laos, on January 1, 1973,[1] during the Laotian Civil War (1954–1975).
Thao Worra was adopted when he was three days old by an American pilot named John Worra, who flew for Royal Air Lao.[citation needed] He came to the United States in July 1973.
This dissertation investigates how the war as a historical period is also a project of knowledge production.Thao Worra's early years were spent in Missoula, Montana, Anchorage, Alaska, and Saline, Michigan. [1]
Thao Worra attended several private Lutheran elementary schools in Alaska and Michigan. In the 1980s, T
