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Vanessa Veselka

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

2019 What hills…

January 23, 2019January 24, 2019 by vveselka

An end of the year account—Tlingit and D&D and porn and art and novels and upcoming classes…

December 21, 2014January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Tall Ships, Best American Essays, Readings, Isis…

October 9, 2013January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Thank you Gerard Donaghy for the cool trailer!

July 3, 2012January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Older post…grandiose logic

April 4, 2012January 24, 2019 by vveselka

the rat queen

March 16, 2012January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Book news, gratitude, and fair warnings…

February 6, 2012January 24, 2019 by vveselka

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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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