[1] She wrote the six-issue miniseries Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death and a few Wonder Woman issues for DC.

Chu was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968,[3][4] and moved frequently in her youth, spending her formative years in Iowa.

[5] In 1989, she received dual degrees at Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for East Asian Studies and Architectural Design, respectively.

[18] Chu was recognized as a cultural leader of the year for 2018 by the Corea Image Communications Institute and said she had plans to write a comic in Seoul.

[21] In 2001, Chu married Laurence Chang, an investment analyst who is also a graduate of Harvard; they both kept their surnames.