TC Huo is a Laotian American author, of Chinese descent, who emigrated from Laos to the United States in 1980 and now lives in Oakland, California. He has written the novels A Thousand Wings and Land of Smiles . [1] [2]
In 2001, he received the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. [3]
In 2017, Land of Smiles was discussed in Volume 8 of the journal Asian American Literature: Discourse and Pedagogies, in an article titled Reconstructing Diasporic Subjectivity by Brian G. Chen, from Westfield State University. [4]