Vanessa Hua is a journalist and writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books, 2016; Counterpoint Press, 2020)[1] and A River of Stars (Ballantine) and the forthcoming Forbidden City.[2] She is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle [3] and a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.[4] Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, and other publications.^{[citation needed]}

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Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua, author
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Stanford University, UC Riverside
Notable works	Deceit and Other Possibilities
Notable awards	Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, James D. Phelan literary award, Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, Asian American Journalists Association’s National Journalism Award, James Madison Freedom of Information Award

Awards and critical acclaim

• 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[5]
• 2017 Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice Reporting [6]
• 2017 Finalist, California Book Award [7]
• 2016-17 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature [8]
• 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award [9]
• Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing [10]
• San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award for fiction [11]

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[12]

References

External links

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