Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel
Cengel in 2020
Born	1976 (age 48–49) Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation	Author and journalist
Education	University of California, San Diego
Notable works	From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
Website
katyacengel.com

Katya Danielle Cengel (born 1976) is an American author and journalist.

Early life

Cengel was born in Oakland, California. In 1998, she earned a bachelor's degree in Literature Writing from UC San Diego.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

In 1998, Cengel was working as a features writer for The Baltic Times newspaper in Riga, Latvia. ^[1] Later, Cengel was a general assignment reporter for the Kyiv Post . ^[2] She also reported regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle ^[3] and BBC World Service. ^[4] Cengel described her Central European life and work in her 2019 book From Chernobyl With Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union for which she won the IPPY ^[5] and Foreword INDIE awards. ^[6]

Returning to the United States, Cengel joined the Louisville Courier-Journal as a general assignment features reporter. ^[7] Her series on the families of the Lost Boys of Sudan received second place feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists 2005 Green Eyeshade Award. ^[8]

Cengel teaches journalism at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ^[9] and UC Berkeley Extension. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Bibliography

• Bluegrass Baseball: A Year In The Minor League Life (2012) Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Review ^[10]
• Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back (2018) Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9781640120341 Review ^[11]
• From Chernobyl With Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (2019). Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9781640122048 Review ^[12]

References

1. "Lost between borders". baltictimes.com . Retrieved 2020-08-21.
2. "Katya Cengel, Author at KyivPost". KyivPost. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
3. "About the Contributors". Manoa. 15 (2): 214–217. 2003. doi:10.1353/man.2003.0126. Project MUSE   47940.
4. "KatyaCengel and Keli Moore paired up with BBC". journalism.calpoly.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
5. "2020 Medalist Cat 35-60". ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
6. "Recent Award Winners & Finalist". www.unpblog.com. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
7. "Former 'Courier Journal' reporter, Katya Cengel, mixes books and baseball at Carmichael's". www.louisville.com. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
8. "2005 Winners | Green Eyeshade Awards" . Retrieved 2020-08-22.
9. "Katya Cengel". California Polytechnic State University, Journalism Department, Faculty & Staff. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
10. "A Book Review By Dorothy Seymour Mills: Bluegrass Baseball:A Year In The Minor League Life". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
11. "Review: Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back Katya Cengel tracks the lives of four families following the fall of the genocidal Khmer Rouge". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
12. "Review of From Chernobyl with Love". www.forewordreviews.com. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-23.