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Vanessa Veselka

I write novels, stories, and essays. I hold out hope we can be better humans.

The Great Offshore Grounds – and organizing unions

February 24, 2020 by vveselka

2019 What hills…

January 23, 2019January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Vanessa Veselka (Portland, OR) has been at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in GQ, Bitch, The Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva and Best American Essays. Her novel Zazen won the 2012 PEN / Bingham Prize for fiction.

Represented by Sarah Bowlin sbowlin@aevitascreative.com

another friend of the rat queen

First novel – click to buy from Powells

Cover of Zazen by Vanessa Veselka.

Nonfiction – Longform

GQ The Truck Stop Killer https://www.gq.com/story/truck-stop-killer-gq-november-2012?verso=true

 

Atlantic – In the Wake of Protest (organizing at Amazon) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/in-the-wake-of-protest-one-womans-attempt-to-unionize-amazon/249853/

 

Atavist Magazine, a memoir about a battle in 1804 https://magazine.atavist.com/the-fort-of-young-saplings

Medium – The Best Monster, a profile of artist, gamer, alt-porn star, Zak Smith aka Zak Sabbath https://medium.com/matter/the-best-monster-38461c5cbbf1

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other work in other places…

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