The Bookshop Podcast

Katya Cengel, Journalist, Author

March 13, 2023 Mandy Jackson-Beverly Season 1 Episode 190
The Bookshop Podcast
Katya Cengel, Journalist, Author
Show Notes

In this episode, I chat with Katya Cengel about her life as a journalist,  interviewing refugees from Cambodia, and her book Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back.

Katya Cengel is a freelance writer and author based in California. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She has reported from North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa and was based in the former Soviet Union for half a decade. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011.

She is the author of Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) 2020 winner and Foreword Indies 2019 winner From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (Potomac, 2019); Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back (Potomac, 2018) and 2013 Kentucky Literary Award finalist Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska, 2012).

She has been awarded grants from the International Reporting Project, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists. Her series on the families of the Lost Boys of Sudan received a second place feature writing Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award and her 2017 article My brother’s killer is now my friend was named one of BBC’s “Best big reads of 2017”. Her second book, Exiled, is included in a California State Library curated permanent collection.

 Katya Cengel

Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back, Katya Cengel

From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union, Katya Cengel

Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life, Katya Cengel

 The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime, Bradley Hope

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