Sarah Kuhn is an American author of

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best known for her ''Heroine Complex'' series featuring Asian American

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Career

Early in her career, in 2010, Kuhn wrote a

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novella, "One Con Glory", which garnered positive reviews from ''

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'' and ''USA Today'' and went into development as a feature film. Kuhn has written articles and essays for various genre-specific publications such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Creative Screenwriting Magazine'', and the Hugo-nominated essay collection ''Chicks Dig Comics''. Kuhn has also worked on

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comics and on a comic book continuation of the movie ''

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'', which she worked on with

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and Siobhan Keenan. With artist Nicole Goux, Kuhn has worked on a

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graphic novel for

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. Kuhn also wrote a Doctor Aphra audio drama with a full cast in 2020.

Personal life

In 2011, she was selected as a finalist for the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment New Writers Award and in 2018 she was one of the finalists for the ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer. Kuhn is married and lives in

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. Kuhn is of half-Japanese, quarter-German and quarter-English descent and is featured in the 2020

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documentary '' The Claudia Kishi Club''.

Bibliography

;''Heroine Complex'' * ''Heroine Complex'' (2016) * ''Heroine Worship'' (2017) * ''Heroine's Journey'' (2018) * ''Unsung Heroine'' (2019) * ''Haunted Heroine'' (2020) * ''Hollywood Heroine'' (2021) ;YA novels * ''I Love You So Mochi'' (2019) * ''From Little Tokyo, With Love'' (2021) ;Graphic novels * ''Shadow of the Batgirl'' (2020) * ''Riverdale Diaries, Vol. 1: Hello, Betty!'' (2020) * ''Girl Taking Over: A Lois Lane Story'' (2023)

References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhn, Sarah American women novelists American novelists of Asian descent American women novelists of Asian descent American women writers of Asian descent American comics writers American people of English descent American people of German descent DC Comics people Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American writers of Japanese descent 21st-century American women