Maurene Goo

Maurene Goo is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her novel I Believe in A Thing Called Love. Her books have been translated into seven languages.

Goo was born and raised in Glendale, U.S., and she studied communication at UC San Diego. She has a master's in publishing, writing, and literature from Emerson College. Prior to publishing her debut novel, Since You Asked, she worked in publishing. Goo is of Korean descent.

Her sophomore novel, I Believe in A Thing Called Love, about a socially awkward Korean American teen who decides to follow a K-Drama formula to get a boy to fall in love with her, has received the most critical acclaim of all her publications so far. It received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews, and landed on the best of 2017 and 2018 lists of CCBC, Seventeen, and Publisher's Weekly.

Young Adult Novels

• Since You Asked (Scholastic, 2013)
• I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
• The Way You Make Me Feel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
• Somewhere Only We Know (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Short Stories

• in Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America (Simon Pulse, 2018)
• in Come On In (Inkyard Press, 2020)