Vanessa Hua Explained
Vanessa Hua is an American writer and journalist.
Career
Hua has worked as a journalist at the Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] 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.
She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship award in 2020.[3]
Personal life
Hua graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in media studies. Hua graduated from the University of California, Riverside's creative writing MFA program in 2009.
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[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
- Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Publishing 2016)
- A River of Stars (Ballantine Books August 2018), a novel about San Francisco Chinatown
- Forbidden City (Ballantine Books May 2022), a novel about a young mistress of Mao Zedong[10]
Notes and References
- Weber . Jessica . 2022 . The Writer . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625135550/https://news.ucr.edu/ucr-magazine/spring-2022/alumni-profile . June 25, 2022 . September 7, 2024 . UCR Magazine . . Spring 2022.
- Web site: Hua . Vanessa . January 12, 2023 . So long, but not goodbye: Vanessa Hua bids farewell to weekly column . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230131192442/https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/so-long-but-not-goodbye-vanessa-hua-bids-farewell-to-weekly-column . January 31, 2023 . 2024-09-07 . Datebook . . en-US . January 5, 2023.
- Web site: Bastidas . Jose Alejandro . Vanessa Hua, Chronicle columnist, receives National Endowment for the Arts fellowship . San Francisco Chronicle.
- Web site: Chronicle columnist Vanessa Hua wins civil rights award . 3 August 2017 . 2017-12-16.
- Web site: Finalists named for California Book Awards . 6 April 2017 . 2017-12-16.
- Web site: Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Names 2016 Literature Award Winners . . 26 January 2017 . 2017-12-16.
- Web site: The Rona Jaffa Foundation: Past Recipients . 2016-09-22 . 2018-08-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180831015311/http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html . dead .
- Web site: 2013-2014 Fellows . 2016-09-22.
- Web site: The San Francisco Foundation Announces literary Awardees . 2016-09-22.
- News: 2022-05-21 . Review ‘Forbidden City’ gives voice to a history meant to be buried . 2024-03-09 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
