Paula Yoo 유보라
@PaulaYoo
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Award-winning book author (National Book Award Longlist/YALSA/HornBook). TV writer/EP (WGA, 12 shows, 3 pilots). Violinist (AFM 47). 4 Cat Lady. @oreothecatyoo
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2009
RISING FROM THE ASHES🔥✊🇰🇷🇺🇸📚My @NYRBooks 1992 #LAUprising #Saigu #solidarity book won 2025 CLA John & Patricia Beatty Award! 100+ sources. New info. 5 stars. 2025 YALSA & SCBWI Awards. Award ceremony/signing with PB winner María Dolores Águila 10/25/25: https://t.co/mxeK3Jd4x0
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#YooAreRehearsing 🎻🎶🎼🎵 Join Yoo & Vicente Chamber Orchestra for our 10/19/2025 Dvořák String Serenade & Vivaldi Four Seasons concert featuring solo violinists Ken Aiso, Aggy Blevin, Steven Lu, Philip Vaiman & harpsichordist Tae Yeon Lim! 🎫🎟️🔗 https://t.co/dsUD2zQ6KT
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HOW WE ALL GET FREE: Join Yoo 9/29/25 @ilifftheology about hope & my @NYRBooks book RISING FROM THE ASHES: EDWARD JAE SONG LEE, LATASHA HARLINS, RODNEY KING & A CITY ON FIRE. 5 starred reviews. 2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award 🔗 https://t.co/UvSKQHIWWZ
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#YooAreRehearsing 🎻🎶🎼 Our first rehearsal! Join Yoo & Vicente Chamber Orchestra on Oct. 19, 2025 for Dvořák String Serenade & Vivaldi Four Seasons featuring violinists Ken Aiso, Aggy Blevin, Steven Lu, Philip Vaiman & harpsichordist Tae Yeon Lim! 🎫🎟️🔗 https://t.co/dsUD2zQ6KT
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#YooRock 🤘🎸My 30th anniversary of seeing nine inch nail nails live back in Detroit 1995! “No, Yoo can't take that away from me…” #NIN #PeelItBack #nineinchnails #KIAForum @nineinchnails
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#YooRock 😎🎻🎸Guess who’s seeing @oasis this weekend?!!! Yoo last saw both @NoelGallagher & @liamgallagher together in 2008! “You’re gonna be the one that saves Yoo…” 🤘👏😍 #wonderwall #oasis #oasis2025 #rosebowl 🌹🎶🔗 https://t.co/7340jNRaoD
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#YooNeedADrink 🍸 Yeah. It’s been a week. Happy Hour for Yoo before heading back into the #amwriting catcave! 😻👩🏻💻📝📚📺 Thank you https://t.co/RPbwpR8AWU for the surprise complimentary cocktails! 🥂😍
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#YooAreHere Celebrating 광복절 🇰🇷✊ 80th Anniversary of Korea’s National Liberation Day at the Korean Bell of Friendship in San Pedro. Pulitzer Prize photographer Hyungwon Kang @Kangphoto & Yoo rang the bell & I donated my @NYRBooks RISING FROM THE ASHES #SaIGu book in its honor.
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#YooAreHere Celebrating 광복절 🇰🇷✊ 80th Anniversary of Korea’s National Liberation Day at the Korean Bell of Friendship in San Pedro. Pulitzer Prize photographer Hyungwon Kang @Kangphoto will ring the bell & Yoo will donate my @NYRBooks RISING FROM THE ASHES #SaIGu book.
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June 22, 2025 🎸🎻🎤 “So now that it’s over can’t we just say goodbye?/I’d like to move on and make the most of the night.” Thank you @OzzyOsbourne for the music. 🎼🎶🤘✊❤️ #RIP #Ozzy #NoMoreTears 🔗 https://t.co/XIIXl2TfPO
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#YooAreHere It was an honor to interview @koreatimes editor/journalist Peter Pak for my @NYRBooks nonfiction book RISING FROM THE ASHES on his 1992 #LAUprising 사이구 #Saigu experience. Yoo are honored to attend his memoir event for “Are You a Reporter? I Am a Reporter” 🇰🇷🇺🇸📰
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RISING FROM THE ASHES🔥📚✊ My latest blog on my 2025 @ALALibrary #ALAac25 #ALA25 Philly & #CrushingItInConnecticut adventures from this New Englander! Yoo are now home & about to enter the #AmWriting cat cave for awhile! #StayTuned #WriteLikeYooMeanIt 🔗 https://t.co/YDPvIUeT6v
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#CrushingItInConnecticut 🏌🏻♀️⛳️🥖🍦🍨 You can take Yoo out of Connecticut to Los Angeles in 1995, but you can’t take Connecticut mini golf, “dirty water” ice cream & Italian grinders out of YOO! ❤️😋🔗 https://t.co/wGjqYUuOeV 🔗 https://t.co/VXCTnhrF0l & https://t.co/v931ce7Fzf
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#CrushingItInConnecticut 🦞😋🛥️ You can take Yoo out of Connecticut but you can’t take the Connecticut lobster roll out of Yoo! Thank you https://t.co/3nOiwkkphI in Mystic!
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#CrushingItInConnecticut 🍶😋 Yoo loved visiting https://t.co/qzURz3P2Lq run by dear friends Bob Florence & Debbi Michiko Florence & James Wayman in my home state!
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RISING FROM THE ASHES🔥✊📚 Yoo thanks @yalsa @ALALibrary @NYRBooks #ALAac25 #ALA25 for the 2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award for “Rising From the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire.” 🔗 https://t.co/RGE2OD1o5E
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#ALAac25 #ALA25 Yoo thanks YOU for my @NYRBooks @ALALibrary book signing! See Yoo 6/29 @yalsa 2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award for Rising From the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King & a City on Fire 🔗 https://t.co/FOv09L78C6
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RISING FROM THE ASHES 🔥✊ #ALAac25 #ALA25 Philly! Yoo signs my 2025 @yalsa Excellence in Nonfiction Award @NYRBooks Rising From the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King & a City on Fire on 6/28 & YALSA speech 6/29! https://t.co/FOv09L78C6
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RISING FROM THE ASHES 🔥✊ Join Yoo at #ALAac25 #ALA25 @ALALibrary Philly! 📚Yoo will sign my @yalsa YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award RISING FROM THE ASHES book at @NYRBooks booth 724 Saturday 6/28 & give a speech at YALSA awards ceremony Sunday 6/29! https://t.co/FOv09L7GrE
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JUNE 23, 2025: In honor of Vincent Chin (5/18/55-6/23/82), here is my @Medium piece on fiancée Vikki Wong, family & friends whom I interviewed for my award-winning National Book Award Longlist nonfiction @NYRBooks book FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY 🔗 https://t.co/zWdW2dBQOv
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