Amy Chu
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Amy Chu | |
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.jpg) Chu at GalaxyCon Richmond 2026 | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Occupations | Comic book writer, publisher |
| Years active | 2010–present |
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| Website | amychu |
Amy Chu (born 1968) is an American comic book author who runs the comic imprint Alpha Girl Comics as well as writing comics for other publishers.[1] She wrote the six-issue miniseries Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death and a few Wonder Woman issues for DC.[2]
In 2023, she won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[3]
Chu was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968,[4][5] and moved frequently in her youth, spending her formative years in Iowa.[6] In 1989, she received dual degrees at Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for East Asian Studies and Architectural Design, respectively.[7][8][9] After working overseas, she returned to the US and attended Harvard Business School for her MBA in 1999.[10][11]
Career
Chu worked in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997, running the Macau tourism office.[6]
In 2010, Chu started Alpha Girl Comics when she and her friend, Georgia Lee, discussed the lack of female voices in comics.[12][8] Chu took a course in creative writing and developed her interest in comics writing from there.[10][13] She has continued to focus on the lack of representation of women in the comics industry speaking on panels at comic events.[14]
She published three collections of short stories under Alpha Girl Comics titled Girls Night Out from 2012 to 2014.[15] Several were funded through Kickstarter, as well as in 2017, a remaster and collection of all three volumes into paperback format.[16]
Chu has been writing Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment since late 2016.[17] She also started working on Dynamite's KISS in 2016.[18] Chu took over writing duties for Dynamite's Green Hornet beginning with the 2018 run.[19]
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.[20]
Chu wrote a comic adaptation of Carmilla drawn by Soo Lee titled Carmilla: The First Vampire set in 1990s New York City.[21] Her work went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.[22]
Personal life
In 2001, Chu married Laurence Chang, an investment analyst who is also a graduate of Harvard; they both kept their surnames.[4] They have two children and as of 2018 reside in Princeton, New Jersey.[20][6]
