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, NPR, USA Today, 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, where she attended public Korean school. She received her BA in Creative Writing and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and 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 University, creative writing at Yonsei University and fiction workshop in the the MFA program at Columbia University.

Her children’s book The Goblin Twins and the sequel The Goblin Twins: Too Hard To Scare was published by Crown Books for Young Readers.

She divides her time between New York and South Korea.

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