“Best of 2024” Honors for “Rising from the Ashes”
As the year draws to a close, I am honored by the many accolades and “Best of” lists my latest YA narrative nonfiction book RISING FROM THE ASHES: LOS ANGELES, […]
RISING FROM THE ASHES: Fall 2024 Book Tour
RISING FROM THE ASHES 🔥📚 Join Yoo on my fall book tour! Dates and info below! November 12, 2024 (5:30 PM ET): I will discuss and sign my latest YA […]
Grieving Vincent Chin Today
Author and screenwriter Paula Yoo honors the memory of Vincent Chin while on a reporting trip. Photo courtesy of Jarod Lew. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This essay was originally published on May […]
Award-winning Journalist Paula Yoo Pens Nonfiction Narrative about 1992 L.A. Uprising
Rising from the Ashes is a compelling, nuanced account of the complex conflict and its impact on L.A.’s Black and Korean American communities. (Photo of author on April 29, 2024 […]
Rising From the Ashes
From the Publisher: “Based on more than 100 personal interviews, Rising from the Ashes follows these events through the eyes and experiences of the families of Rodney King, Latasha Harlins, […]
Two Unions and a Violin
WGAW and AFM Local 47 member Paula Yoo. Photo courtesy of WGA/Writers on the Line © 2023 Writers Guild of America. All rights reserved. Written by Writers Guild of America […]
“FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY,” YA non-fiction book about Vincent Chin, to be published April 6, 2021 by Norton Young Readers
I am honored to tell the story of Vincent Chin for the next generation. My book, FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY, will be published this April 6, 2021 […]
#YooTube: TV Pilot “Olympic Boulevard” Sold to Peacock
I am thrilled to announce that I sold my first original TV drama pilot to Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming platform, with producers Neil Meron and Mark Nicholson of Zadan/Meron Productions […]