Steph Cha
Steph Cha is the author of the novels Your House Will Pay, Follow Her Home, Beware Beware, and Dead Soon Enough. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Trop magazine. A graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School, she lives in her native city of Los Angeles.

‘Violent Spring’: Clues in a Metropolitan Minefield
Gary Phillips’s fictional detective Ivan Monk guides us through Los Angeles, then and now.
Nov 7, 2024

Excerpt: ‘Your House Will Pay’
Read the opening of Steph Cha’s crime novel, our June California Book Club selection.
May 24, 2022

Why I Write: The Long Con
Your House Will Pay author Steph Cha shot for the moon—and got away with it.
Apr 5, 2022

The Plagues
In this short story from author Steph Cha, a pregnant woman and her husband struggle to feel safe with riots outside and a gun in the house.
Sep 29, 2020