Steph Cha (born 1986) 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).

[1] She subsequently grew up in Encino, California with her mother, father and two younger brothers.

The book has received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Hyphen, KoreAm Journal, and other publications.

[6] Cha also has published freelance book reviews and food writing for the Los Angeles Times (serving as a restaurant scout and a protégé of sorts for LA Times' Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold),[7] humor pieces for Trop Magazine and a short story entitled "Treasures in Heaven" in the Winter 2013 Fiction Issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

[8][9] Cha has also written more than 2,400 reviews on Yelp, according to a Los Angeles Times interview,[10][9] and has held the "Elite" reviewer title for more than six years in a row, according to an interview with The Rumpus.