Bryan Thao Worra is a Lao American writer. He is the first Lao American to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a Cultural Olympian representing Laos during the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Bryan Thao Worra works actively to support Laotian, Hmong and Southeast Asian American artists. He is recognized by the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thao Worra served as a consulting contractor with the Minnesota History Center, the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans and the Minnesota Humanities Commission. He is an active professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

DEMONSTRA (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013), BARROW (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2009), Winter Ink (Minnesota Center tor the Book Arts, 2008), On the Other Side of the Eye (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007)

Bamboo Among the Oaks (The Borealis Press, 2015), How Do I Begin? (Heyday Books, 2011), Language for a New Century (Norton, 2008), Outsiders Within (South End Press, 2006)

Arbutus, Asian Pacific American Journal, Astropoetica, Big Bridge, Big City Lit, Buddhist Poetry Review, Cascadia Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Defenestration, Hyphen, Illumen, In Our Own Words, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, Mastodon Dentist, Mid-American Poetry Review, Muse Apprentice Guild, Out of Line, Paj Ntaub Voice, PaperTiger: New World Poetry, Pedestal Magazine, Poems Niederngasse, Poetry Midwest, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Real Eight View, Rock Salt Plum, Speakeasy, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Missing Slate, The Tamafhyr Mountain Poetry Irregular, Whimperbang, Whistling Shade