Paula Yoo is an award-winning author of children’s and Young Adult books, a former journalist, and current screenwriter who has merged her talents to create thoroughly researched and reported nonfiction books, but with the intensity of a suspense movie thriller, and the intimate emotional character journey of a novel. As a Korean American who’s specialized in multicultural Asian-American themed children’s books and having lived in Detroit working as a journalist for The Detroit News, Yoo examines the controversial racial issues behind the Vincent Chin story with sensitivity, authority, and grace in the award-winning FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: THE KILLING OF VINCENT CHIN AND THE TRIAL THAT GALVANIZED THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT. The paperback version of FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY with a teacher’s guide will be released August 21, 2023. Yoo’s next book, RISING FROM THE ASHES: LOS ANGELES, 1992. EDWARD JAE SONG LEE, LATASHA HARLINS, RODNEY KING, AND A CITY ON FIRE, about the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising and featuring her personal, in-depth interviews with the Lee, Harlins and King families, will be published by Norton Young Readers on April 2, 2024.