T. C. Huo

Born in Laos of Chinese descent, T. C. Huo immigrated to the United States in 1979. He received a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine. Among the writers Huo has studied with are Thomas Keneally, Ethan Canin, and Robert Pinsky. He has received the award for adult fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. He is the author of Land of Smiles and A Thousand Wings, and lives in Santa Clara, California.