Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel is a freelance journalist and author based in California. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She is the author of From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union, which was the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) 2020 winner and Foreword Indies 2019 winner. She is also the author of Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back and Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life.