Maurene Goo

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Maurene Goo
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Maurene Goo in 2018
BornLos Angeles, California, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater University of California, San Diego
Emerson College
GenreYoung adult fiction, comics
Years active2013–present
Spouse
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(m. 2012)​
Children1
Website
maurenegoo.com

Maurene Goo is a Korean-American author of young adult fiction and comics. Her books have been translated into twelve languages [1] and two of her novels, I Believe in a Thing Called Love and Somewhere Only We Know, have been optioned to be made into feature films by Netflix.

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Life and education

Maurene Goo was born in Los Angeles [2] and raised in Glendale, California. [3] She went to school thinking she was going to become a journalist, [4] and she studied communication and English literature at UC San Diego. [5] She applied to grad schools for journalism, creative writng, and publishing, ending up getting accepted into all. [4] She has a master's in publishing, writing, and literature from Emerson College. Prior to publishing her debut novel, Since You Asked, she worked in publishing and design. [6]

In 2012, she married illustrator Christopher Appelhans. [7] Their son was born in 2020. [8]

Career

Goo published her first young adult novel, Since You Asked, in 2013 with Scholastic. Her sophomore novel, I Believe in A Thing Called Love, was released in 2017, followed by The Way You Make Me Feel (2018), and Somewhere Only We Know (2019). In 2021, Goo completed a five-issue run for Marvel Comics, writing Korean-American superhero Silk, illustrated by Canadian comic book artist Takeshi Miyazawa who has previously illustrated other comics set in the Spider-Verse. [9] [10] She has published essays and short stories in various anthologies, as well.[ citation needed ]

Her newest young adult novel, Throwback, about a Korean American gen Z teen getting stuck in the 90s, wasbe published by Zando on April 11, 2023. [11]

Her work has been critically-acclaimed and award-winning, receiving multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly [ citation needed ] , Kirkus Reviews [ citation needed ] , School Library Journal [ citation needed ] , and Booklist [ citation needed ] , been placed on many school, library, and state reading lists and has appeared on several “Best Book” lists, including NPR [ citation needed ] (2017, 2018), Cosmo [ citation needed ] (2019), The Boston Globe [ citation needed ] (2018), The New York Public Library [ citation needed ] (2017, 2018) and The Los Angeles Public Library[ citation needed ] (2013). She is the recipient of the California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award[ citation needed ] and a finalist for the California Book Award .[ citation needed ]

Works

Novels

Short stories

Comics series

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  1. ↑ "Foreign editions". Maurenegoo. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  2. ↑ Cynthia (2018-07-13). "Read is the New Black: Author Interview with Maurene Goo". Read is the New Black. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ↑ Goo, Steph Cha interviews Maurene (22 August 2018). ""So Many Stories to Tell": A Conversation with Maurene Goo". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  4. 1 2 Chan, Goldie. "Telling Fun And Multi-Generational Asian American Stories With Author Maurene Goo". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
  5. ↑ "Books". www.alumni.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  6. ↑ Gallucci, Kelly (2018-05-23). "Maurene Goo Dishes on Food Trucks, Frenemies, and The Way You Make Me Feel". Bookish. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  7. ↑ 100layercake (2012-09-17). "Dreamy California wedding: Maurene + Chris". 100 Layer Cake. Retrieved 2023-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Apeles, Teena (2022-10-04). "Inside the LA Home of Author Maurene Goo". JoySauce. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
  9. ↑ "Cindy Moon Returns in 'Silk' #1". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  10. ↑ Grunenwald, Joe (2020-02-28). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  11. ↑ Comment, Amanda MacGregor Leave a (2023-04-18). "Book Review: Throwback by Maurene Goo". Teen Librarian Toolbox. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
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