Karen Su writes children’s picture books focusing on Asian American life stories. She has written four Asian American biographies for Carson Dellosa's Leaders Like Us series: Grace Lee Boggs, Philip Vera Cruz, Yuri Kochiyama, and Dalip Singh Saund. She was the winner of the SCBWI-IL Many Voices Prizes in 2022. She was a nonfiction mentee for We Need Diverse Books in 2018 and chosen to be a mentee with Maya Gonzalez (Reflection Press) in 2017. She teaches in the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. Latest BooksGrace Lee Boggs (Carson Dellosa, 2023)
Yuri Kochiyama (Carson Dellosa, 2023) Philip Vera Cruz (Carson Dellosa, 2023) |