• Skip to main content

Katya Cengel

Author Website

  • Home
  • Bio
  • Books
    • Straitjackets and Lunch Money
    • From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
    • Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
    • Bluegrass Baseball
  • Stories
    • Features
    • Short Stories
    • Essays
    • Archives
  • NGO
  • Events & News
  • Contact

Events & News

Author Talks

  • Stay tuned…
  • If you missed Katya’s earlier events, you can watch her conversation with Linda Joy Myers for National Association of Memoir Writers here. And listen to her conversation with The Reluctant Therapist  here as well as watch it on News Channel 12, 3, 11.

News

Straitjackets and Lunch Money was featured on two of Scott Bradfield’s YouTube shows, including his Christmas Bathtacular 2025.

Katya’s Marie Claire feature Of Murder and Motherhood was made into a Discovery true crime docuseries.

She spoke with Brendan O’Meara of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast about crafting her longform story for Atavist Magazine.

Straitjackets and Lunch Money was featured on Episode 123 of the Let’s Talk Memoir podcast with Ronit Plank.  Katya’s second memoir was called “incredibly affecting” by the San Francisco Chronicle and harrowing but engrossing” by Kirkus Reviews.

Copyright © 2026 Katya Cengel · Site Design: Ilsa Brink