Amy Chu

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. She wrote the six-issue miniseries Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death and a few Wonder Woman issues for DC.

In 2023, she won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.

Early life Chu was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968, and moved frequently in her youth, spending her formative years in Iowa. In 1989, she received dual degrees at Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for East Asian Studies and Architectural Design, respectively. After working overseas, she returned to the US and attended Harvard Business School for her MBA in 1999.

Career Chu worked in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997, running the Macau tourism office. She has continued to focus on the lack of representation of women in the comics industry speaking on panels at comic events.

She published three collections of short stories under Alpha Girl Comics titled Girls Night Out from 2012 to 2014. Several were funded through Kickstarter, as well as in 2017, a remaster and collection of all three volumes into paperback format.

Chu has been writing Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment since late 2016. She also started working on Dynamite's KISS in 2016. Chu took over writing duties for Dynamite's Green Hornet beginning with the 2018 run.

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. Her work went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.

Personal life In 2001, Chu married Laurence Chang, an investment analyst who is also a graduate of Harvard; they both kept their surnames. They have two children and as of 2018 reside in Princeton, New Jersey.