Not until motherhood happened thrice did she finally begin to write in earnest. She did at one point see her name writ large on an IMAX screen with the ending credits, but she downplays that with “Not so impressive when your last name is HA.” That name thing is an open challenge: “My maiden name is Ha. You don’t even get to meet anyone famous,” she writes in her blog bio. “It’s just contract law for television shows and movies. Then came corporate law, and next entertainment law, which Oh insists isn’t quite as glamorous as it might sound. Legally degreed, she stayed in the DC area for love. She then did the dutiful Asian American daughter thing and chose law school, heading south to Georgetown University.
The daughter of Korean immigrants, Oh grew up in Brooklyn and went to college at NYU. Given my recovering Catholic background, dare I say. Kira, her third-century Korean supergirl hero, is the youngest of three siblings, and she will spend three books seeking three treasures.īeyond the page, Oh is the founding president of #WeNeedDiverseBooks, which officially took off with a three-day social media event and morphed into such a stupendously successful campaign that it’s literally, colorfully changing the face(s) of the publishing industry! That trilogy is Prophecy, of which the third volume pubs this December. The third book she wrote got her a three-book deal and put her in bookstores and library shelves around the world.
She’s had three careers – lawyer, professor, and finally a published writer (after 40!). She’s the proud mother of three daughters. Ellen Oh’s Prophecy Trilogy and Why #WeNeedDiverseBooksįor Ellen Oh, good things seem to happen in threes.
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