Vanessa Hua is an American writer and journalist.
Early life and education Hua was born to a Taiwanese American family. She graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in media studies. She then earned a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside in 2009.
Career She is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (2020) and A River of Stars (2018) and the novel, Forbidden City (2022). She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Hua has worked as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Hua was a weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2016 to 2023.
Hua has taught at Warren Wilson College's master of fine arts (MFA) program.
She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship award in 2020.
Personal life Hua is married and has two sons.
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) A River of Stars (Ballantine Books August 2018) , a novel about San Francisco Chinatown Forbidden City (Ballantine Books May 2022) , a novel about a young mistress of Mao Zedong
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