Kou Thao

Kou Thao is a queer Hmong-American writer and healer. He writes at the intersections of culture, identity, resilience, and love. Kou is a 2013 Bush Fellow and a 2014 White House Champion of Change. He is the author of the book chapters: “Mov Ntse Dlej” in What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family and “Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong Diaspora” in Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women.