page_title: Vanessa Hua
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caption_attribution_description: reading at Fall for the Book
context_page_description: Vanessa Hua is a journalist and writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and A River of Stars and the forthcoming The Sea Places. 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.
context_section_description: Vanessa Hua is a 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 forthcoming The Sea Places. 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.
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