Paula Yoo is an acclaimed children’s book author and novelist, TV drama screenwriter, and musician. Her debut novel, GOOD ENOUGH, was released February 5, 2008 from HarperCollins. She is also the author of the children’s non-fiction picture book, Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story (illustrated by Dom Lee), published by Lee & Low Books in 2003. It won the Lee & Low 2003 New Voices Award, received starred reviews from BookList and Kirkus Reviews, and was on the 2006 Texas BlueBonnet Masterlist and the IRA 2006 Notable Book list. Her second picture book, Shooting Star: The Anna May Wong Story, about legendary screen star Anna May Wong, will be illustrated by Lin Wang and published in Spring 2009 by Lee & Low Books.

Paula’s TV writing credits include NBC’s The West Wing, FOX’s Tru Calling, The N (Paramount/MTV cable network)’s Beyond the Break, The CW’s Hidden Palms, and LIFETIME’s Side Order of Life. She graduated with a B.A. cum laude in English from Yale University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, where she was the recipient of the prestigious Larry Levis Fellowship in Fiction. Before becoming a full-time author and screenwriter, she was a journalist (staff feature writer/reporter for The Seattle Times, The Detroit News, and PEOPLE Magazine’s Los Angeles bureau).

When not writing, Paula is a professional freelance violinist. Classically trained, Paula studied violin at the Hartt School of Music and Yale University and was concertmaster of the Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra, principal second of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Santa Monica and Torrance Symphony Orchestras. She has performed numerous classical chamber music recitals throughout the LA area, including concerts with the Los Angeles Chamber Players. Paula also loves playing alternative rock on her Fender electric violin and Celtic fiddle! She has performed, toured, and recorded with a number of national rock acts including Arthur Lee of Love, Spiritualized, The Dilettantes, Dylan Campbell, Kathleen "Bird" York, Anne McCue, Bright Blue Gorilla, The NOW People, Kissing Cousins, Wait Think Fast, Emma Burgess, Buck McCoy, Listing Ship and Random AOK.

Paula's totally awesome brother DAVID YOO is also a writer!

He is the author of the acclaimed YA novel Girls for Breakfast (Delacorte, 2005) and has a new YA novel called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before coming out this October 2008 from Hyperion!

In fact, David even generously re-designed Paula's GOOD ENOUGH book cover to be so much more beautiful and eye-catching...

You can also find Paula at her myspace sites:

http://www.myspace.com/paulayoo

http://www.myspace.com/paulayooviolin