Steph Cha
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| occupation = Writer, novelist
| nationality = American
| education = Stanford University
Yale Law School (JD)
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Steph Cha (born 1986) is a Korean American novelist and fiction writer, who has released three novels in the crime fiction genre about her detective protagonist Juniper Song: Follow Her Home (2013), Beware Beware (2014), and Dead Soon Enough (2015). Her most recent book, stand-alone crime fiction novel Your House Will Pay (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery.
Background
Cha was born in Van Nuys, California in 1986.{{cite web|work=Steph Cha Official Site|title=Bio|url=https://bystephcha.wordpress.com/bio/}} She subsequently grew up in Encino, California with her mother, father and two younger brothers. She attended Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City.Id. Cha graduated from Stanford University, where she studied English and East Asian Studies, and also completed a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School.{{cite web|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|title=Authors: Steph Cha|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/stephcha}}
Work
=Novels=
In 2013, Cha published her first Juniper Song mystery, Follow Her Home (2013) with Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press and Macmillan Publishers. The book has received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Hyphen, KoreAm Journal, and other publications.Macmillan Publishers, Follow Her Home, [http://us.macmillan.com/followherhome/stephcha Macmillan] The sequel Beware Beware (2014) was published the following year in 2014, also by Minotaur Books.Macmillan Publishers, Beware Beware, [http://us.macmillan.com/bewarebeware/stephcha Macmillan] The third novel in the series, Dead Soon Enough was published by Minotaur Books in 2015.Macmillan Publishers, Dead Soon Enough, [http://us.macmillan.com/deadsoonenough/stephcha Macmillan]
=Other Writing=
Cha also has published freelance book reviews and food writing for the Los Angeles Times (serving as a restaurant scout and a protégé of sorts for LA Times
Cha has also written more than 2,400 reviews on Yelp, according to a Los Angeles Times interview,Ivy Pochoda, Steph Cha talks about the L.A. immigrant noir of 'Dead Soon Enough', August 11, 2015, [http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-steph-cha-20150810-story.html Los Angeles Times] and has held the "Elite" reviewer title for more than six years in a row, according to an interview with The Rumpus.
Bibliography
=Novels=
==Juniper Song mysteries==
- {{Cite book |last=Cha |first=Steph |title=Follow Her Home |publisher=Minotaur Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1250009623 |edition=hardcover 1st |pages=1–288 |author-mask=2}}
- {{Cite book |last=Cha |first=Steph |title=Beware Beware |publisher=Minotaur Books |year=2014 |isbn=978-1250049018 |edition=hardcover |pages=1–304 |author-mask=2}}
- {{Cite book |last=Cha |first=Steph |title=Dead Soon Enough |publisher=Minotaur Books |year=2015 |isbn=978-1250065315 |edition=hardcover 1st |pages=1–292 |author-mask=2}}
==Other novels==
- {{Cite book |last=Cha |first=Steph |title=Your House Will Pay |publisher=Ecco |year=2019 |isbn=978-0062868855 |edition=hardcover 1st |pages=1–304 |author-mask=2}}
=Short stories=
- "Treasures in Heaven" (Los Angeles Review of Books, Winter 2013)
Awards
References
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External links
- [http://stephcha.com/ Steph Cha's Official Site]
- [http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-steph-cha-20150810-story.html Steph Cha Interview in the LA Times]
- [http://therumpus.net/2015/01/the-rumpus-interview-with-steph-cha/ Steph Cha Interview in The Rumpus]
- [http://us.macmillan.com/author/stephcha MacMillan Author Page for Steph Cha]
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Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Yale Law School alumni
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American writers of Korean descent