Fellows & Editors
Vanessa Hua
- Trip:
- Nepal 2015
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Nepal
- Year:
- 2015
- Find me on:
Vanessa Hua is a California-based writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, FRONTLINE/World, PRI’s The World, The Atlantic, Guernica, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Hartford Courant, and has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, and Panama. She has received the Asian American Journalists Association’s National Awards in online/broadcast, print and radio, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists’ in-depth reporting award and James Madison Freedom of Information Award. She was a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and 2014 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction. A graduate of Stanford University and UC Riverside’s MFA program, she works and teaches at the Writers’ Grotto in San Francisco, and blogs at Three Under One. Hua was also a 2002 IRP Fellow.
Stories
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I Used to Run Toward Danger
As soon I stepped off the plane in Abu Dhabi, the heat hit me. The air conditioning in the jet-way couldn’t beat back the desert shimmering through the tinted glass....
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