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Vanessa Hua
American journalist and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] She graduated from the University of California, Riverside's creative writing Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) program in 2009.[1]
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.[1][2] Hua was a weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2016 to 2023.[2]
Hua has taught at Warren Wilson College's master of fine arts (MFA) program.[1]
She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship award in 2020.[3]
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Personal life
Hua is married and has two sons.[2]
Awards and critical acclaim
- 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[3]
- 2017 Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice Reporting[4]
- 2017 Finalist, California Book Award[5]
- 2016-17 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature[6]
- 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award[7]
- Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing[8]
- San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award for fiction[9]
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
- Forbidden City (Ballantine Books May 2022) ISBN 978-0-399-17881-8, a novel about a young mistress of Mao Zedong[10]
References
External links
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