Vanessa Hua is an American 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 San Francisco Chronicle 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 Chinatown
