Background
Steph Cha was born on January 14, 1986, in Van Nuys, California, United States. She grew up in Encino, California. She has two younger brothers.
Steph Cha
700 N Faring Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States
Harvard-Westlake School where Steph Cha studied.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Stanford University where Steph Cha received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
127 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Yale Law School where Steph Cha received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.
2015
Steph Cha with Elizabeth Little and Sarah Williams at the Bouchercon 2015.
2018
Steph Cha with Walter Mosley in 2018.
Steph Cha with Bill Beverly, Tod Goldberg, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Steph Cha
1890 Huntington Dr, San Marino, CA 91108, United States
Steph Cha with George Fong and Naomi Hirahara at Crowell Public Library.
1890 Huntington Dr, San Marino, CA 91108, United States
Steph Cha with George Fong and Naomi Hirahara at Crowell Public Library.
Steph Cha
Steph Cha
Steph Cha with Linwood Barclay.
118 S Sheffey St, Marion, VA 24354, United States
Steph Cha at Smyth-Bland Regional Library.
2015
Steph Cha with Elizabeth Little and Sarah Williams at the Bouchercon 2015.
2018
Steph Cha with Walter Mosley in 2018.
2019
Steph Cha and her family with her brother graduating from college in May 2019.
Steph Cha with Bill Beverly, Tod Goldberg, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
1890 Huntington Dr, San Marino, CA 91108, United States
Steph Cha with George Fong and Naomi Hirahara at Crowell Public Library.
1890 Huntington Dr, San Marino, CA 91108, United States
Steph Cha with George Fong and Naomi Hirahara at Crowell Public Library.
Steph Cha with Linwood Barclay.
118 S Sheffey St, Marion, VA 24354, United States
Steph Cha at Smyth-Bland Regional Library.
Steph Cha with Vanessa Selbst.
700 N Faring Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States
Harvard-Westlake School where Steph Cha studied.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Stanford University where Steph Cha received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
127 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Yale Law School where Steph Cha received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.
Steph Cha with her dog.
Steph Cha with her dog.
(Juniper Song knows secrets - how to keep them and how to ...)
Juniper Song knows secrets - how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend Luke asks her to investigate a possible affair between his father and a young employee, Juniper (or "Song" as her friends call her) finds an opportunity to play detective. Driving through L.A.'s side streets, following leads, tailing suspects-it all appeals to Song's romantic ideal of the noir hero. But when she's knocked out while investigating a mysterious car and finds a body in her own trunk, Song lurches back to the real L.A., becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond role play. What's more, this isn't the first time Song has stuck her nose in other people's business. As she fights to discover the truth about her friend's family, Song reveals one of her own deeply hidden secrets, something dark and damaging, urging her to see the current mystery through, to rectify the mistakes of her past life.
https://www.amazon.com/Follow-Home-Juniper-Song-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B009LRWU8S/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Working as an apprentice at a P.I. firm, Juniper Song fin...)
Working as an apprentice at a P.I. firm, Juniper Song finds herself nose deep in a Hollywood murder scandal where the lies may be more glamorous than most, but the truths they cover are just as ugly. When a young woman named Daphne Freamon calls looking for an eye on her boyfriend, her boss punts the client to Song. Daphne is an independently wealthy painter living in New York, and her boyfriend Jamie Landon is a freelance screenwriter in Los Angeles, ghostwriting a vanity project for aging movie star Joe Tilley. Song quickly learns that there's more to this case than a simple tail, and her suspicions are confirmed when Tilley winds up dead in a hotel room. Nonetheless, when Jamie becomes the prime suspect in the movie star's murder, she agrees to help the charismatic couple discover the truth, even as the police build their case against Jamie. As she chases leads and questions grieving Hollywood insiders, she uncovers a sordid layer of blackmail and hidden identities, of a history of violence that leaves no one - not even Song - safe from judgment.
https://www.amazon.com/Beware-Juniper-Song-Mystery-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B00ID8G5RS/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Juniper Song is managing her own cases as the junior inve...)
Juniper Song is managing her own cases as the junior investigator of Lindley & Flores. When a woman named Rubina Gasparian approaches Song, she knows she's in for her most unusual case yet. The daughter of Armenian immigrants, Rubina and her husband Van recently learned that she cannot get pregnant-so they hired Rubina's younger cousin, Lusig, to act as a surrogate. However, Lusig's best friend Nora has been missing for a month, and Rubina is concerned that her cousin is dealing with her stress in a way that could harm the baby. Rubina hires Song to shadow her and report all that she finds. Of course, Lusig is frantically searching for her friend, and Song's case soon turns into a hunt for the missing woman, whom she finds was deeply embroiled in a public and ugly battle to erect an Armenian genocide memorial. As Song probes the depths of both this tight-knit immigrant community and the groups who antagonize it, she realizes that someone was willing to stop at nothing to ensure Nora's silence. But can she find the killer before it's too late for Rubina and Van's child-or for Song herself?
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Soon-Enough-Juniper-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B00SET2W5A/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, L...)
In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it’s been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale.
https://www.amazon.com/Innocents-Novel-Stephanie-Cha-ebook/dp/B07F12G5YS/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Steph Cha was born on January 14, 1986, in Van Nuys, California, United States. She grew up in Encino, California. She has two younger brothers.
Steph Cha attended Harvard-Westlake School. Then she received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Stanford University in 2007. In 2010 she received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Yale Law School where she started her writing.
Steph Cha is a novelist and fiction writer and the only woman in her genre, Korea American Noir. She is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy. The first book from the trilogy is Follow Her Home (2013). It is the novel she started to write when she was 22 years old. This book introduces Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of Los Angeles with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart. The following book Beware Beware was published in 2014. It’s a tale that twists around the lies we tell ourselves and others, that examines the ugliness under the skin-deep glamor of Los Angeles. The third novel from the trilogy, Dead Soon Enough, was published in 2015.
The novel is about a woman named Rubina Gasparian that hires a private investigator, Juniper Song, to look after her cousin Lusig who is also the surrogate of her baby. Cha's most recent novel Your House Will Pay (2019) is a powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in LA, following two families - one Korean-American, one African-American - grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime.
Cha is also an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Trop Magazine. She is the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Cha was one of the three authors that were chosen to participate in the Writer-In-Residence program at PCC. She splits her time between writing and working as a temp attorney.
(In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, L...)
2019(Juniper Song is managing her own cases as the junior inve...)
2015(Juniper Song knows secrets - how to keep them and how to ...)
2013(Working as an apprentice at a P.I. firm, Juniper Song fin...)
2014Steph Cha loves Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. These two men defined her genre. Her other favorites are Faulkner, Nabokov, James, Wharton, Joyce, Austen, Joan Didion, Chang-Rae Lee, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Marilynne Robinson. She also likes Pynchon, McCarthy, and Coetzee.
She gravitates toward novels that make her feel sad and terrible.
Quotations:
"I’m actually a pretty slow reader as things go. I envy people who can get through an 80,000-word book in a day. I’m always ravenous for fiction, though - I haven’t gone more than a day or two without reading fiction for many years. I like stories, and pretty prose and most of my fiction reading is purely for pleasure."
"Most writers are huge messy ego maniacs dealing with self-doubt."
"I put myself into a lot of my characters so I can connect with my reader."
Steph Cha is married.
