Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua | |
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 Hua in 2018 | |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BA, MA), University of California, Riverside (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award |
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Vanessa Hua is an American writer and journalist.
Career
[edit]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]
Personal life
[edit]Hua graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in media studies.[1] Hua graduated from the University of California, Riverside's creative writing MFA program in 2009.[1]
Hua is married and has two sons.[2]
Awards and critical acclaim
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d Weber, Jessica (2022). "The Writer". UCR Magazine. No. Spring 2022. University of California, Riverside. Archived from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ a b c Hua, Vanessa (January 12, 2023). "So long, but not goodbye: Vanessa Hua bids farewell to weekly column". Datebook. San Francisco Chronicle (published January 5, 2023). Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
- ^ a b Bastidas, Jose Alejandro. "Vanessa Hua, Chronicle columnist, receives National Endowment for the Arts fellowship". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Chronicle columnist Vanessa Hua wins civil rights award". 3 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ^ "Finalists named for California Book Awards". 6 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ^ "Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Names 2016 Literature Award Winners". NBC News. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ^ "The Rona Jaffa Foundation: Past Recipients". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
- ^ "2013-2014 Fellows". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
- ^ "The San Francisco Foundation Announces literary Awardees". Retrieved 2016-09-22.
- ^ "Review | 'Forbidden City' gives voice to a history meant to be buried". Washington Post. 2022-05-21. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
External links
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- American women journalists
- American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- Living people
- Stanford University alumni
- Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American writers of Taiwanese descent
- University of California, Riverside alumni