Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestsellers “A River of Stars” and “Forbidden City,” as well as “Deceit and Other Possibilities,” a New York Times Editors Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award, California Arts Council Fellowship, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and elsewhere.