Award-winning, bestselling graphic novelist of Almost American Girl and The Fox Maidens Robin Ha’s THE SPICE BOY, a touching Young Adult graphic novel following teenage Mina, who, when things aren’t going her way at home, is sent to Turkey to help out at her uncle’s BnB, where she unexpectedly falls in love for the first time and discovers her passion for cooking, to Rose Pleuler at HarperAlley, for publication Winter 2028, in a two book deal, by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (North America).
Robin Ha (She/her) is a Korean American cartoonist based in Virginia. She is the author and the illustrator of Almost American Girl, a 2020 Harvey Award nominee and 2021 Walter Award honoree memoir, The Fox Maidens (2024) and Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes, a New York Times bestselling cookbook graphic novel. Her comics and illustrations have appeared in various publications including The Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as in anthologies highlighting Asian American culture including RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from theNineties to Now, New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei, and Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology (Secret Identities).
Robin is represented by Samantha Haywood.
Congratulations, Robin!