Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel has written for New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian and Wall Street Journal among others. She is the author of Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) 2020 winner and Foreword Indies 2019 winner “From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union”; “Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back”, included in a California State Library curated permanent collection; and 2013 Kentucky Literary Award finalist “Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life” .

She has been awarded grants from the International Reporting Project, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the International Center for Journalists. Her series on the families of the Lost Boys of Sudan received a second place feature writing Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award and her article “My brother’s killer is now my friend” was named one of BBC’s “Best big reads of 2017”.