Hanna Cha is a Caldecott Honor award-winning illustrator and writer with several books under her belt. She is the creator of her first book Tiny Feet Between the Mountains and illustrated Circle Round by Anne Sibley O’Brien. She was also the recipient of the Caldecott Honor and the APALA winner for The Truth about Dragons by Julie Leung and also part of the Junior Library Gold Standard Selection for The House Before Falling Into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang.
Born in America and a vagabond she lived in tandem between Seoul, Korea, and many states in America. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017, she resided in Boston with her husband, and her tiger-like cuddly cat, Hobac. When she isn’t daydreaming and capturing moments with her soft washes, she is pointing and filing away at lil’ nooks of details to later conjure them into a daydream and inevitably a story.
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차호윤(Hanna Cha) 작가는 삶의 다양한 순간과 마음을 겹겹히 책과 그림으로 펼쳐내는게 행복한 예술가입니다. 미국에서 태어나 한국과 미국에서 학교를 다녔고, 2017년도에 로드아일랜드 디자인 학교에서 일러스트 미술을 전공하였습니다. 한인 최초로 칼데콧 아너 상을 수상하고 보스톤에서 꾸준히 작품 활동 중 입니다.
Photo by Chrissy Bulakites
ABOUT
AWARDS
Caldecott Honor
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winner
Junior Library Gold Standard Selection
Tea is Love (2025, Dial Books)
The House Before Falling Into the Sea (2024, Dial Books)
Truth About Dragons (2023, Henry Holt)
Circle Round (2021, CharlesBridge)
Tiny Feet Between the Mountains (2019, Simon & Schuster)
BOOKS
For publishing and literary inquiries please contact: Wendi Gu, wendi(at)hgliterary.com
For any other projects or if you want to just say “hi!” you can reach me: hannayoonicha(at)gmail.com