As I scrambled into Second Moon Coffee Café, I immediately recognized the small and poised Kalia. The award-winning writer was hovering over a book next to a stash of colorful pens and of course, a  cup of coffee she already downed. A local favorite in the literary community and a nationally acclaimed author of The Latehomecomer, I sat down for a chat with Kalia on her latest projects, community activism and what it means to be a Hmong woman writer. As an ‘artivist’, Kalia drives social change the best way she knows how, through her craft of writing. “I write from a desperate urgency. Not from conviction. I feel like if I don’t write, I don’t have a sense of self.” With strength in her prose, Kalia speaks volumes as a writer in need of sharing, listening and constantly wondering. “On the page, I feel like I’m coming home.” Let’s start off with what everyone’s talking about: the Radiolab debacle. Thousands of people have poured out in support of you. What was the feedback like? What …