Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua | |
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 Vanessa Hua, author
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| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University University of California, Riverside |
| Notable works | Deceit and Other Possibilities |
| Notable awards | Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, James D. Phelan literary award, Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, Asian American Journalists Association’s National Journalism Award, James Madison Freedom of Information Award |
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Vanessa Hua is an American journalist and writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books, 2016; Counterpoint Press, 2020) and A River of Stars (Ballantine) and the novel, Forbidden City (Penguin Random House, 2022). She is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, and other publications. She received a National Endowment for the Arts awards Literature Fellowship award in 2020.
Awards and critical acclaim
- 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 2017 Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice Reporting
- 2017 Finalist, California Book Award
- 2016-17 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
- 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award
- Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing
- San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award for fiction
Bibliography
- Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Publishing 2016) ISBN 978-0997199628
- A River of Stars (Ballantine Books August 2018) ISBN 978-0399178788, a novel about San Francisco Chinatown