Frances Cha is the author of the novel If I Had Your Face, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time Magazine, NPR, BBC and Esquire among other publications and is being translated into 12 languages.

Born in Minnesota, she moved to Texas at age 4, Hong Kong at age 8 and South Korea at age 11. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she received a Dean’s Fellowship. She worked as the assistant managing editor of Samsung Economic Research Institute’s business journal in Seoul, and as a travel and culture editor for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong. She has taught media studies at Ewha Womens University and creative writing at Yonsei University.

She currently teaches fiction in the MFA program at Columbia University.

Her children’s book The Goblin Twins was published by Crown Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House) in September 2023.

The sequel The Goblin Twins Too Hard To Scare will be published in September 2024.

She divides her time between New York and Seoul.

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