Bryan Thao Worra
- January 5, 2024
- Poet
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Bryan Thao Worra Biography
| Name | Bryan Thao Worra |
| Birthday | Jan 1 |
| Birth Year | 1973 |
| Place Of Birth | Vientiane |
| Birth Country | Laos |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Bryan Thao Worra is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on January 1, 1973 in Vientiane, Laos. Author and poet who is known for his work such as On The Other Side Of The Eye, DEMONSTRA, and Winter Ink. He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2009.
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Bryan Thao Worra was born Thao Somnouk Silosoth (Lao: ທ້າວ ສອມນກຸກ ສກິລອສອທ ) in Vientiane, capital of the Kingdom of Laos on January 1, 1973 during the Laotian Civil War (1954–1975).
Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1, 1973) 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 received the Asian Pacific Leadership Award from the State Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans for Leadership in the Arts in 2009. He received the Science Fiction Poetry Association Elgin Award for Book of the Year in 2014. He was selected as a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. He is the first Asian American president of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, and the first Laotian American member of the professional Horror Writers Association.
Born in Laos the country of Laos, he received an adoption from an American family and spent his early years living in Alaska, Montana, and Michigan.
Bryan Thao Worra Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Bryan Thao Worra is one of the richest Poet from Laos. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bryan Thao Worra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He attended Otterbein College. The chapbook he published was his debut, Touching Detonations, in 2003.
He was chosen as a representative of Laos as an Cultural Olympian at the 2012 Olympics.
He came to the United States in July 1973. Bryan Thao Worra’s early years were spent in Missoula, Montana, Anchorage, Alaska, and Saline, Michigan. Thao Worra currently resides in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota and between 2012-2017 split his time between several cities in California, including the city of Hemet, California, Ukiah, California, Dublin, California, and Pasadena, California.
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Bryan Thao Worra was a 2002 Minnesota Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellow. His play Black Box was performed at the Sex/No Sex Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York, NY in November, 2006. He also assisted in the editing of the modernized theater adaptation of Phadaeng and Nang Ai, a traditional Lao/Isan Love Story by Suthasinee Srisawat in May 2007 for Bakka Magazine.
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Bryan Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Laos. Bryan Thao Worra celebrates birthday on January 1 of every year.
His chapbook The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: My Dinner With Clusterbombs was printed by Unarmed Press in 2003 in a limited edition. Sphinx House Press released Touching Detonations in the same year, exploring the issue of unexploded ordnance in Laos. These were the first works to emerge from his first return to Laos.