Vanessa Hua is author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books). She is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and her two novels are forthcoming from Ballantine. She writes primarily about Asia and the diaspora. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction, and was a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, PRI’s The World, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, and elsewhere.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
LARB Lit: Uncle, Eat
A story from Vanessa Hua for the LARB Lit section....
Dawn MacKeen on “The Hundred-Year Walk”
Vanessa Hua interviews Dawn MacKeen....
Eating off the Grid
Vanessa Hua talks to Ava Chin about food, foraging, and memoir....
California Writes
“A kaleidoscopic view of California, with stories, essays, and poems by new and established poets and writers.”...
Surviving the Cultural Revolution: Xiaoda Xiao’s “The Visiting Suit”
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed....
A Reader's Guide to Peter Mountford: An Interview
Finance and economics clearly play an important role in contemporary history, but for some reason there’s very little “literary” fiction about them....
