Vanessa Hua

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