Laotian American poet, writer, and journalist Bryan Thao Worra was born in Vientiane, Laos in January, 1973 during the Laotian Secret War. He came to the United States in July, 1973 as the adopted child of an American pilot working in Laos at the time.

He has been writing creatively since he was a child, but began seriously writing in 1991, with a particular focus on poetry.

Thao Worra's work frequently explores a wide range of social and cultural themes, and the transient nature of identity and home. His style is frequently experimental and draws from a variety of modern and contemporary influences.

One of the most widely published Laotian poets, his work has appeared in the Bamboo Among the Oaks Anthology, as well as Whistling Shade, Urban Pioneer, Unarmed, the Asian Pacific Journal and the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, among many others.

He was also a 2002 MN Playwrights' Center Many Voices Fellow and is an active member of the SatJaDham Lao Literary Project, working actively to promote the work of Laotian and Hmong artists and writers.

He currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and has worked at national and regional levels on issues of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement.

In his spare time, he also travels widely and raises crustaceans.