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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) A River of Stars (Ballantine Books August 2018) , a novel about San Francisco Chinatown

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Notable quotes

“I think the American dream is still what gets us out of bed every day, that life can be better…”
— On the state of the “American Dream” in “A Conversation with Vanessa Hua” in Read It Forward
“Characters, even though they’re minor, shouldn’t be a device. No person should be a device to move the plot along. That’s when you run into problems with stereotypes. I strive, in my journalism and my fiction, to make characters as complex and complicated as they are in real life…”
— On how she writes characters in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)
“Fiction fosters empathy among readers by putting them in a position to consider deeply someone’s history, hopes, and ambitions…”
— On how fiction might differ from her journalist works in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)

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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.

Overview

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) A River of Stars (Ballantine Books August 2018) , a novel about San Francisco Chinatown

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“I think the American dream is still what gets us out of bed every day, that life can be better…”
— On the state of the “American Dream” in “A Conversation with Vanessa Hua” in Read It Forward
“Characters, even though they’re minor, shouldn’t be a device. No person should be a device to move the plot along. That’s when you run into problems with stereotypes. I strive, in my journalism and my fiction, to make characters as complex and complicated as they are in real life…”
— On how she writes characters in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)
“Fiction fosters empathy among readers by putting them in a position to consider deeply someone’s history, hopes, and ambitions…”
— On how fiction might differ from her journalist works in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Vanessa Hua across IJR

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Vanessa HuaAnnotating your day in the margins.

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