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Vanessa Veselka

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

The Real Cover…

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

The Great Offshore Grounds – and organizing unions

February 24, 2020April 18, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

2019 What hills…

January 23, 2019January 24, 2019 by Vanessa Veselka

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. Her new novel, The Great Offshore Grounds is available on Knopf Fall 2020.

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

 

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