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| Born | 1976 (age 49–50) 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 |
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Katya Danielle Cengel (born 1976) is an American author and journalist.
Early life
[edit]Cengel was born in Oakland, California. In 1998, she earned a bachelor's degree in Literature Writing from UC San Diego.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ↑ "Lost between borders". baltictimes.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ↑ "Katya Cengel, Author at KyivPost". KyivPost. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ↑ "About the Contributors". Manoa. 15 (2): 214–217. 2003. doi:10.1353/man.2003.0126. Project MUSE 47940.
- ↑ "KatyaCengel and Keli Moore paired up with BBC". journalism.calpoly.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-08-28. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
- ↑ "2020 Medalist Cat 35-60". ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
- ↑ "Recent Award Winners & Finalist". www.unpblog.com. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "2005 Winners | Green Eyeshade Awards". Retrieved 2020-08-22.
- ↑ "Katya Cengel". California Polytechnic State University, Journalism Department, Faculty & Staff. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ↑ "A Book Review By Dorothy Seymour Mills: Bluegrass Baseball:A Year In The Minor League Life". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Review of From Chernobyl with Love". www.forewordreviews.com. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
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