Born: 1975 (circa), United States
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Country most active: United States
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For more than two decades, Vanessa Hua has been writing about Asia and the diaspora in journalism and in fiction. An award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, she’s the author of A River of Stars, a national bestseller longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize and the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a “best books” pick by NPR and Washington Post. Her short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Honors include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and the Atlantic. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she teaches at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Warren Wilson College, and elsewhere.