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) and ''A River of Stars'' (Ballantine) and the novel, ''Forbidden City'' (Penguin Random House, 2022). She is a columnist for the ''

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'' 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 Chinatownhttps://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/new-novel-uncovers-the-secret-lives-of-chinatown

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hua, Vanessa American women journalists American women novelists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Stanford University alumni Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area 21st-century American non-fiction writers American writers of Taiwanese descent