Amy Chu

Chu was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968, and moved frequently in her youth, spending her formative years in Iowa. In 1989, she received dual degrees at Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for East Asian Studies and Architectural Design, respectively. After working overseas, she returned to the US and attended Harvard Business School for her MBA in 1999.

Chu worked in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997, running the Macau tourism office.

In 2010, Chu started Alpha Girl Comics when she and her friend, Georgia Lee, discussed the lack of female voices in comics. Chu took a course in creative writing and developed her interest in comics writing from there. She has continued to focus on the lack of representation of women in the comics industry speaking on panels at comic events.

She published three collections of short stories under Alpha Girl Comics titled Girls Night Out from 2012 to 2014. Several were funded through Kickstarter, as well as in 2017, a remaster and collection of all three volumes into paperback format.

Chu has been writing Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment since late 2016. She also started working on Dynamite's KISS in 2016. Chu took over writing duties for Dynamite's Green Hornet beginning with the 2018 run.

Chu was recognized as a cultural leader of the year for 2018 by the Corea Image Communications Institute and said she had plans to write a comic in Seoul.

Chu wrote a comic adaptation of Carmilla drawn by Soo Lee titled Carmilla: The First Vampire set in 1990s New York City. Her work went on to win the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel.

In 2001, Chu married Laurence Chang, an investment analyst who is also a graduate of Harvard; they both kept their surnames. They have two children and as of 2018 reside in Princeton, New Jersey.