Katya Cengel has written about everything from retired dancing bears in Bulgaria to the world’s largest machine gun shoot in Kentucky. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, marie claire, Esquire, Salon and Condé Nast Traveller.
Her first book, “Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life,” published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2012, was one of five finalists for the 2013 Kentucky Literary Award. See what the San Diego Union-Tribune, New York Journal of Books, milb.com, Baseball America and others are saying about it and read an excerpt. Or just order it!
She will be at the Central Coast Writers Conference September 20-21, 2013. In spring of 2013 she will be teaching a course on cross-cultural reporting at U.C. Berkeley Extension.
Her work was recently featured in World Ark, Rotarian and Lion magazines. She spent February on assignment in Armenia, Romania and Georgia. Her story on basketball in Georgia was featured on Salon.com in March. An excerpt from Katya's Eastern European memoir was published in the Spring 2013 issue of Caveat Lector.
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