Career
She is the widow of Outhine Bounyavong and has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi ("The Little Orphan and the Spirit’). She is engaged in literacy, e.g. by participating at the Big Brother Mouse project, and participates on running a publishing house and a shop providing children's books in Lao language.