Yia Lor
@yiawrites.bsky.social
she/they/nws
#Hmong #KidLit #Writer #SCBWI #DogMom 🐾 #TreeHugger 🌿
Rep: Mike Whatnall at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret 📚✨
Insta: instagram.com/yiawrites
#Hmong #KidLit #Writer #SCBWI #DogMom 🐾 #TreeHugger 🌿
Rep: Mike Whatnall at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret 📚✨
Insta: instagram.com/yiawrites
When I’m not writing or hanging out in the forest, I’m oohing and aahing at the sky. 🤩
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
When I’m not writing or hanging out in the forest, I’m oohing and aahing at the sky. 🤩
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
When I’m not writing, I’m making music with my fellow trumpet cup lichen friends. 🎶
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
When I’m not writing, I’m making music with my fellow trumpet cup lichen friends. 🎶
That time I convinced my brother to run a 5k with me, and then I had major regrets…but we did it! 👻
#halloween #5k #runec
#halloween #5k #runec
October 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
That time I convinced my brother to run a 5k with me, and then I had major regrets…but we did it! 👻
#halloween #5k #runec
#halloween #5k #runec
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab os! Happy Hmoob New Year! Grateful to celebrate our history, harvest, and beautiful culture. ❤️
#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec
#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Nyob zoo xyoo tshiab os! Happy Hmoob New Year! Grateful to celebrate our history, harvest, and beautiful culture. ❤️
#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec
#hmong #hmoob #hmongnewyear #captureec
I haven't written much lately (blame Mother Nature!), but here's an article I wrote last year that was printed this week. I read it multiple times, so I'll go ahead and log this as research for writing. Which counts toward writing. 😉 #writing #writingcommunity
volumeone.org/articles/202...
volumeone.org/articles/202...
COLUMN: Snip, Snip
I combed my fingers through my new bangs before looking at the camera again. The whole haircut was edgy in some ways with the choppy bangs and lopsided hair. It was not the simple trim I had envisione...
volumeone.org
August 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I haven't written much lately (blame Mother Nature!), but here's an article I wrote last year that was printed this week. I read it multiple times, so I'll go ahead and log this as research for writing. Which counts toward writing. 😉 #writing #writingcommunity
volumeone.org/articles/202...
volumeone.org/articles/202...
Ever wonder what happens before and after a forest therapy walk? This is why it’s near impossible for me to write this time of year! Blame it on being a forest therapy guide. Apparently, I can’t be that and a writer in the same season! 😂 #Nature #treefrog #frog #foresttherapy #writersblock
August 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Ever wonder what happens before and after a forest therapy walk? This is why it’s near impossible for me to write this time of year! Blame it on being a forest therapy guide. Apparently, I can’t be that and a writer in the same season! 😂 #Nature #treefrog #frog #foresttherapy #writersblock
I have not been writing because I have been watching nymphs become cicadas. But I’ll go ahead and log this as writing research. 😉 #writingcommunity #cicada #nature
August 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I have not been writing because I have been watching nymphs become cicadas. But I’ll go ahead and log this as writing research. 😉 #writingcommunity #cicada #nature
So much to love about this, especially trees with opinions! 💚
August 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
So much to love about this, especially trees with opinions! 💚
Have you checked out FORTS yet?! Don’t miss out on this bestseller! #kidlit
I'm agog! FORTS is one of @usatoday.com's bestselling #picturebooks this week!
Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚
#kidlit
www.usatoday.com/booklist/gen...
Thank you to all the indie bookstores who believe in this book and have been sharing it with their customers. ❤️💙📚
#kidlit
www.usatoday.com/booklist/gen...
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Have you checked out FORTS yet?! Don’t miss out on this bestseller! #kidlit
So many wondering happenings to celebrate, including Katie’s book! Don’t miss this one! 🥳
Happy book birthday to my debut, Forts! Brilliantly illustrated by @kenardpak.bsky.social
#kidlit #picturebooks
#kidlit #picturebooks
August 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
So many wondering happenings to celebrate, including Katie’s book! Don’t miss this one! 🥳
If you’re looking for something to do this summer, my sister always loved geocaching. 💚
#geocaching #wisconsinlife #hmong #writer #grief #sisters
wisconsinlife.org/story/why-an...
#geocaching #wisconsinlife #hmong #writer #grief #sisters
wisconsinlife.org/story/why-an...
How a Wisconsin writer picked up geocaching to stay connected to her late sister - Wisconsin Life
Have you ever picked up a hobby because a friend or relative was really into it? Did you try to see if they’re truly onto something? Writer Yia Lor of Eau Claire did this with geocaching, an outdoor a...
wisconsinlife.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you’re looking for something to do this summer, my sister always loved geocaching. 💚
#geocaching #wisconsinlife #hmong #writer #grief #sisters
wisconsinlife.org/story/why-an...
#geocaching #wisconsinlife #hmong #writer #grief #sisters
wisconsinlife.org/story/why-an...
Katie’s books AND free shipping??! Don’t miss out! #kidlit #picturebooks
My debut #picturebooks -- FORTS and CASSINI'S MISSION will be out soon!
Bookshop is offering free shipping July 8-11. Order from this list on Bookshop and I think I'll get a small kickback, to no cost to you.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
#kidlit
Bookshop is offering free shipping July 8-11. Order from this list on Bookshop and I think I'll get a small kickback, to no cost to you.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
#kidlit
Books written by Katie
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Katie’s books AND free shipping??! Don’t miss out! #kidlit #picturebooks
June 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This Pride month I am joining an incredible group of #queerkidlit creators to host a fundraiser for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Enter this giveaway, and you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ picture books below!
More details at: tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway
#edusky #pride #skybrarians #books #lgbtqia
Enter this giveaway, and you could win a copy of all the LGBTQIA+ picture books below!
More details at: tinyurl.com/pb-giveaway
#edusky #pride #skybrarians #books #lgbtqia
May 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I thought about writing today, but then I came across this fallen log holding all the secrets of the universe, so I sat with her instead. 🙃
#writing #Nature #NatureArt
#writing #Nature #NatureArt
May 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I thought about writing today, but then I came across this fallen log holding all the secrets of the universe, so I sat with her instead. 🙃
#writing #Nature #NatureArt
#writing #Nature #NatureArt
Perfect timing! I'm about to clean up my folder of PBs, so these tips will come in handy.
1) Break revision down as foundational revision(shape), mid-level revision (emotion), fine-tuning (line)
2) Get critiques but don't make changes for 24 hours, sit with the feedback, and only change what makes sense for your story.
3) Read the story out loud. Do you want to do it 100 more times?
2) Get critiques but don't make changes for 24 hours, sit with the feedback, and only change what makes sense for your story.
3) Read the story out loud. Do you want to do it 100 more times?
May 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Perfect timing! I'm about to clean up my folder of PBs, so these tips will come in handy.
Reposted by Yia Lor
Emotionally undone by this very generous starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for my and Julia Blattman's #picturebook, CASSINI'S MISSION, releasing in August from MIT Kids Press and Candlewick
#kidlit
www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232325
#kidlit
www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232325
Cassini’s Mission: A Spacecraft, a Tiny Moon, and the Search for Life Beyond Earth by Katie Venit
“Life as we know/ it,” explains Venit (Forts) on the opening pages of this celestial nonfiction overview, requires “Water/ Chemi...
www.publishersweekly.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Emotionally undone by this very generous starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for my and Julia Blattman's #picturebook, CASSINI'S MISSION, releasing in August from MIT Kids Press and Candlewick
#kidlit
www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232325
#kidlit
www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232325
Reposted by Yia Lor
#Kidlit friends 💔 Please share this far and wide
Our dear friend, Trenise Sabin, was the victim of a major burglary over the weekend. She and her husband Travis have lost everything— from clothing and appliances to irreplaceable items from their recent wedding and the urn
gofund.me/ce50d993
Our dear friend, Trenise Sabin, was the victim of a major burglary over the weekend. She and her husband Travis have lost everything— from clothing and appliances to irreplaceable items from their recent wedding and the urn
gofund.me/ce50d993
May 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#Kidlit friends 💔 Please share this far and wide
Our dear friend, Trenise Sabin, was the victim of a major burglary over the weekend. She and her husband Travis have lost everything— from clothing and appliances to irreplaceable items from their recent wedding and the urn
gofund.me/ce50d993
Our dear friend, Trenise Sabin, was the victim of a major burglary over the weekend. She and her husband Travis have lost everything— from clothing and appliances to irreplaceable items from their recent wedding and the urn
gofund.me/ce50d993
It’s lilac season around here! 💕
May 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s lilac season around here! 💕
So proud of my friend Katie!! Be sure to add this to your reading list! 🤩 #amreading #kidlit
BEYOND thrilled! Kirkus has given @kenardpak.bsky.social's and my book, FORTS, a starred review!
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Coming out with Viking Children's in July. 😁😁
#picturebooks #kidlit
shorturl.at/eujzR
Coming out with Viking Children's in July. 😁😁
#picturebooks #kidlit
April 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So proud of my friend Katie!! Be sure to add this to your reading list! 🤩 #amreading #kidlit