Steph Cha
Cha at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born	1986 (age 38–39)
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Nationality	American
Education	Stanford University Yale Law School (JD)
Genre	Crime fiction
Website
bystephcha.wordpress.com

Steph Cha (born 1986) is aKorean American novelist and fiction writer, who has released three novels in thecrime fiction genre about her detective protagonist Juniper Song:Follow Her Home (2013),Beware Beware (2014), andDead Soon Enough (2015). Her most recent book, stand-alone crime fiction novelYour House Will Pay (2019), won theLos Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery. She also co-created and co-wrote theAmazon Prime Video seriesButterfly.

Cha was born inVan Nuys, California in 1986.^[1] She subsequently grew up inEncino, California with her mother, father and two younger brothers. She attendedHarvard-Westlake School inStudio City.^[2] Cha graduated fromStanford University, where she studied English and East Asian Studies, and also completed aJuris Doctor degree fromYale Law School.^[3]

In 2013, Cha published her first Juniper Song mystery,Follow Her Home (2013) with Minotaur Books, an imprint ofSt. Martin's Press andMacmillan Publishers. The book has received positive reviews from theLos Angeles Times,Kirkus Reviews,Publishers Weekly,Library Journal,Hyphen,KoreAm Journal, and other publications.^[4] The sequelBeware Beware (2014) was published the following year in 2014, also by Minotaur Books.^[5] The third novel in the series,Dead Soon Enough was published by Minotaur Books in 2015.^[6]

Cha also has published freelance book reviews and food writing for theLos Angeles Times (serving as a restaurant scout and a protégé of sorts forLA Times'Pulitzer Prize winning food criticJonathan Gold),^[7] humor pieces forTrop Magazine and a short story entitled "Treasures in Heaven" in the Winter 2013 Fiction Issue of theLos Angeles Review of Books.^[8][9]

Cha has also written more than 2,400 reviews onYelp, according to aLos Angeles Times interview,^[10][9] and has held the "Elite" reviewer title for more than six years in a row, according to an interview withThe Rumpus.^[7]

• —— (2013).Follow Her Home (hardcover 1st ed.).Minotaur Books. pp. 1–288.ISBN 978-1250009623.
• —— (2014).Beware Beware (hardcover ed.).Minotaur Books. pp. 1–304.ISBN 978-1250049018.
• —— (2015).Dead Soon Enough (hardcover 1st ed.).Minotaur Books. pp. 1–292.ISBN 978-1250065315.

• —— (2019).Your House Will Pay (hardcover 1st ed.).Ecco. pp. 1–304.ISBN 978-0062868855.

• "Treasures in Heaven" (Los Angeles Review of Books, Winter 2013)

• Steph Cha's Official Site
• Steph Cha Interview in the LA Times
• Steph Cha Interview in The Rumpus
• MacMillan Author Page for Steph Cha

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• Yale Law School alumni
• 21st-century American novelists
• American writers of Korean descent
• Living people
• 1986 births
• American novelists of Asian descent
• 21st-century American women novelists

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