Global Stories, Author Reading - Thai

This special Global Stories event features author Nui Wilson.

For more than fifteen years, Portland has been home to a vibrant Karen refugee community that unfortunately struggles to maintain its culture, language, and history due to displacement and war in Burma, now Myanmar. There are almost no books about the Karen people.
In 2024, “A Tree of My Own,” by Nui Wilson was published. This is a children’s picture book that features the resettlement experience of the Karen refugee community in Portland, Oregon.

Nui will be here to read her book to us and answer our questions!  -  In a village in Burma, Posada, an ethnic Karen girl, spends her days in the forests and mountains. She even has a tree of her own! When war forces her family to flee, Posada goes on a journey to find a new home and a new tree. Based on Nui Wilson’s decades of volunteer work with Karen refugee families in Portland, Oregon, A Tree of My Own follows the journey of Posada and her family from Burma to a refugee camp in Thailand and finally to Portland where they make their new home.

Author Nui Wilson is a Karen-Thai-Portlander who has spent more than two decades working with Karen refugees in Thailand, Utah, and Oregon. She is not only a writer but a community builder and story keeper having heard the stories of countless refugee families in Portland.