Robin Ha

Robin Ha is an illustrator, writer, and graphic novelist.

Life and career

Early life Ha was born in Seoul, Korea and is Korean by nationality. She went by the name "Ha Chuna" and was raised by her single mother, Cassie. While in the United States, she maintained her interest in Korean manhwa comic books, a hobby she picked up from her mother. where she began trying her hand in home cooking Korean cuisine.

Cook Korean! Ha was working as a textile designer when she contributed a single page for a comic anthology illustrating a recipe for a Korean dish. In 2014, she began illustrating recipes for Korean dishes and posting a web comic series titled "Banchan in Two Pages”. Ha's choice of integrating Korean characters into the mostly English text, rather than transliterating or translating them, was highlighted as a part of a trend of non-English characters appearing in otherwise English-language cookbooks.

Almost American Girl In 2013, Ha began working a memoir focusing of her own immigration. On January 28 of 2020, Ha released Almost American Girl, which she both wrote and illustrated. It would be honored with a 2021 Walter Award under the "Books, Teen" category.