Vanessa Hua
{{short description|American journalist and writer}}
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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. She graduated from the University of California, Riverside's creative writing Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) program in 2009.
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.{{Cite magazine |last=Weber |first=Jessica |date=2022 |title=The Writer |url=https://news.ucr.edu/ucr-magazine/spring-2022/alumni-profile |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625135550/https://news.ucr.edu/ucr-magazine/spring-2022/alumni-profile |archive-date=June 25, 2022 |access-date=September 7, 2024 |magazine=UCR Magazine |publisher=University of California, Riverside |issue=Spring 2022}} Hua was a weekly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 2016 to 2023.{{Cite web |last=Hua |first=Vanessa |date=January 12, 2023 |title=So long, but not goodbye: Vanessa Hua bids farewell to weekly column |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/so-long-but-not-goodbye-vanessa-hua-bids-farewell-to-weekly-column |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131192442/https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/so-long-but-not-goodbye-vanessa-hua-bids-farewell-to-weekly-column |archive-date=January 31, 2023 |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=Datebook |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US |publication-date=January 5, 2023}}
Hua has taught at Warren Wilson College's master of fine arts (MFA) program.
She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship award in 2020.{{Cite web |last=Bastidas |first=Jose Alejandro |date= |title=Vanessa Hua, Chronicle columnist, receives National Endowment for the Arts fellowship |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/vanessa-hua-chronicle-columnist-receives-national-endowment-for-the-arts-fellowship |website=San Francisco Chronicle}}
Personal life
Hua is married and has two sons.
== Awards and critical acclaim ==
- 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- 2017 Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice Reporting{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Chronicle-columnist-Vanessa-Hua-wins-civil-rights-11731778.php |title=Chronicle columnist Vanessa Hua wins civil rights award |date=3 August 2017 |access-date=2017-12-16}}
- 2017 Finalist, California Book Award{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Finalists-named-for-California-Book-Awards-11053409.php |title=Finalists named for California Book Awards |date=6 April 2017 |access-date=2017-12-16}}
- 2016-17 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-pacific-american-librarians-association-names-2016-literature-award-winners-n712621 |title=Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Names 2016 Literature Award Winners |website=NBC News |date=26 January 2017 |access-date=2017-12-16}}
- 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers' Award{{cite web |url=http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html |title=The Rona Jaffa Foundation: Past Recipients |access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2018-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831015311/http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html |url-status=dead }}
- Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing{{cite web|url=http://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/fellows/steinbeckfellows_2013_2014 |title=2013-2014 Fellows |access-date=2016-09-22}}
- San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award for fiction{{cite web|url=http://sff.org/the-san-francisco-foundation-announces-literary-awardees-signals-emergence-of-remarkable-writers |title=The San Francisco Foundation Announces literary Awardees |access-date=2016-09-22}}
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{{Cite news |date=2022-05-21 |title=Review {{!}} ‘Forbidden City’ gives voice to a history meant to be buried |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/05/23/vanessa-hua-forbidden-city-book-review/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}
References
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External links
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- {{official website|http://www.vanessahua.com/}}
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Category:American women journalists
Category:American women novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American writers of Taiwanese descent
Category:University of California, Riverside alumni