Amy Chu

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]

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 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]

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]