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Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel
Katya Cengel is a freelance writer and lectures in the Journalism Department of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was a features and news writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal from 2003 to 2011, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, and Newsweek. She is the author of Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back (Potomac Books, 2018), Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life (Nebraska, 2012), and From Chernobyl with Love (Potomac Books, 2018).


When Stories Aren’t Enough: How Do You Write About the War in Ukraine?

Katya Cengel on the Struggle to Find Meaning in Journalism
August 8, 2022  By Katya Cengel
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The Reality of Post-Chernobyl Life: Way More Complicated Than a TV Show

Notes From a Reporter Who Was There
September 20, 2019  By Katya Cengel
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