Katya Cengel

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]

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