S. Tae is a Korean-born, U.S.-based journalist with more than fifteen years of reporting on the lives, kitchens, and quiet rooms of Koreans and Korean Americans between two countries.

He is the author of several Korean-language nonfiction books, including a biography of a globally celebrated chef and a No. 1 self-development title in Korea.

Now he is turning what he saw, heard, and carried out of those reporting years into fiction. THE SNOW CHEF, his debut novel, draws on the people he followed across kitchens, mountains, and the in-between spaces of immigrant life - ambition, failure, reinvention, and the small private moments that decide who someone really is.

It is a slow-burn contract romance about a Korean-American chef who survived a sabotaged fall on a competition slope, and the burned-out K-pop superstar who collapses at her counter past closing.

THE SNOW CHEF is the first in a growing body of fiction that uses K-culture as a lens for universal human stories - love, power, survival, and the choices that remake a life. Future work will move from intimate romance into political drama, and beyond.

Bilingual in Korean and English. Drawn to stories where the body remembers what the mouth can't say.

Food as memory. Snow as survival. Fire as identity. Romance as earned trust.

- S. Tae