Lya Badgley writes suspenseful international fiction featuring characters overcoming life-changing odds. Global conflict zones and insurgencies offer a vivid backdrop to her stories. She draws deeply from personal experience living in Europe and Southeast Asia.
Her life is worthy of a movie – dabbling in the music industry, opening a restaurant in Myanmar, interviewing insurgents for Human Rights Watch, and microfilming documents for the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia.
Her first novel set in Cambodia -The Foreigner’s Confession - was released in February 2022. Her second novel is set in Myanmar - The Worth of a Ruby, and was released in November 2023. She currently lives in Snohomish Washington and is busy writing her third novel.