# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steph-cha
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:55:07.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steph-cha"
name: "Steph Cha"
slug: "steph-cha"
description: "Steph Cha is a Korean American novelist and fiction writer, who has released three novels in the crime fiction genre about her detective protagonist Juniper Song: Follow Her Home (2013), Beware Beware (2014), and Dead Soon Enough (2015). Her most recent book, stand-alone crime fiction novel Your House Will Pay (2019), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery. She also co-created and co-wrote the Amazon Prime Video series Butterfly."
tagline: "Korean-American writer, editor and critic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steph_Cha_2019_Texas_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1986"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.97
  momentum:             0.3401360544217687
  historical:           5.277610666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14542700/"
    handle:    "nm14542700"
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%85%8C%ED%94%84_%EC%B0%A8"
    title: "스테프 차"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Cha"
    title: "Steph Cha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steph_Cha"
    title: "Steph Cha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9F%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC_%E0%A8%9A%E0%A8%BE"
    title: "ਸਟੈਫ਼ ਚਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%81_%DA%86%D8%A7"
    title: "سٹیف چا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22095423"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4078907"
    title: "Steph Cha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump