Steph Cha

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Steph Cha 2019 during the Texas Book Festival

Steph Cha (* 1986 in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley ( California )) is a Korean-American writer , editor and critic whose work so far in the Los Angeles Times , with USA Today published and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Life and origin

Cha was born in Van Nuys, California in 1986. She grew up with her parents and two younger brothers in Encino , a neighborhood in Los Angeles . She attended Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City. Cha graduated from Stanford University , where she studied English and East Asian Studies, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School .

Publications

Novellas

In 2013, Cha released her first Juniper song Mystery, Follow Her Home with Minotaur Books, an imprint from St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Publishers . The book received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly , Library Journal, Hyphen Magazine, KoreAm Journal, and other publications. The sequel Beware Beware was released in 2014, also by Minotaur Books. The third novel in the series, Dead Soon Enough , was published by Minotaur Books in 2015.

Novels

For her novel "Your house will pay", published in the USA in 2019, she won the "Los Angeles Times Book Prize". The book was published in German in 2020 under the title "Fire sets".

More fonts

Cha freelance published book reviews and food writings for the Los Angeles Times (as a restaurant scout and a kind of protégé for the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold (1960-2018)). She wrote humor for Trop Magazine and published a short story titled Treasures in Heaven for the Winter 2013 Fiction Edition of the Los Angeles Review of Books .

Cha has written more than 2,400 reviews for the US Internet company Yelp , according to an interview with the Los Angeles Times, and in another interview with the online literary magazine The Rumpus, she has held the title of “Elite” reviewer for more than six years in a row .

family

Steph Cha lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two bassets .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steph Cha in Los Angeles Review of Books (accessed August 3, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c Steph Cha, Author of Follow Her Home and Beware Beware. November 1, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Macmillan Publishers, Author: Steph Cha. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Macmillan Publishers, Follow Her Home by Steph Cha, In: us.macmillan.com (accessed August 3, 2020)
  5. ↑ Dead Soon Enough, A Juniper Song Mysteries (Volume 3), by Steph Cha, In: us.macmillan.com (accessed August 3, 2020)
  6. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/about/pressreleases/story/2020-07-13/40th-annual-book-prizes-winners-announced accessed on August 8, 2020
  7. ↑ a b Sabra Embury, The Rumpus Interview with Steph Cha, The Rumpus, January 2, 2015, Therumpus.net (accessed August 3, 2020)
  8. ↑ Steph Cha, Official Site, Bio, supra n.1
  9. ↑ Steph Cha talks about the LA immigrant noir of 'Dead Soon Enough', by Ivy Pochoda, August 11, 2015, In: Los Angeles Times (accessed August 3, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Cha, Steph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean-American writer, editor, and critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles