V.T. Bidania is the author of ASTRID AND APOLLO, the first children’s book series to feature Hmong American characters. Published by Capstone, the 16 chapter books follow the slice-of-life adventures of eight-year-old twins Astrid and Apollo Lee and their Hmong American family in Minnesota. Her forthcoming middle grade verse novel, A YEAR WITHOUT A HOME, will be published in summer 2025 by Nancy Paulsen Books and is a fictionalized memoir of her family’s escape from Laos during the Vietnam War and their time in refugee camps before resettling in the U.S. She is a Loft Literary Center Mirrors & Windows Fellow and McKnight Writing Fellow and has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.