Maurene Goo

Goo was born and raised in Glendale, U.S.,[2] and she studied communication at UC San Diego.[3] She has a master's in publishing, writing, and literature from Emerson College. Prior to publishing her debut novel, Since You Asked, she worked in publishing.[4] Goo is of Korean descent.[5][2]

Her sophomore novel, I Believe in A Thing Called Love, about a socially awkward Korean American teen who decides to follow a K-Drama formula to get a boy to fall in love with her, has received the most critical acclaim of all her publications so far.[6] It received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly[7] and Kirkus Reviews,[8] and landed on the best of 2017 and 2018 lists of CCBC,[9] Seventeen,[10] and Publisher's Weekly.[11] In February 2020 it was announced that a film adaptation written by Yulin Kuang is in development with A-Major Media, with Byung-hun Lee and Charles Pak as producers.[12]

In February 2020 it was announced at C2E2 that Goo would be writing a new on-going comic series for Marvel Comics, about the Korean-American superheroine Silk, illustrated by Canadian comic book artist Takeshi Miyazawa who'd previously illustrated other comics set in the Spider-Verse.[13][14] The first issue was originally set for publication in July 2020, but pushed to October.[14][15]

Young Adult Novels

• Since You Asked (Scholastic, 2013)
• I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
• The Way You Make Me Feel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
• Somewhere Only We Know (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Short Stories

• in Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America (Simon Pulse, 2018)
• in Come On In (Inkyard Press, 2020)

Comics series

• Silk (Marvel Comics, 2020), illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa