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Vanessa Veselka

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

US 395, Joshua Tree, Ghosts and Bad Things to Do in the Desert, and the Southern Route…

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

The Rust Belt, Lake Erie, and New England – Rest areas, Tall Ships, College towns, Labor Strikes, and Dying at Sea…

September 26, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

The Nebraska Territory – Montana, Wyoming, and The Dakotas…

September 20, 2020September 24, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

Van-touring the Internet…or weather, history, and bad ideas.

September 17, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

First Up Against the Wall or exactly how I feel about real estate & private equity moguls who get rich off Medicaid money…

September 8, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

Book release zoom parties, the NBA, and a lost song…

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

Book Launch, strange anxiety, great fortune and wanting…

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 by Vanessa Veselka

The Real Cover…

April 18, 2020August 25, 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 musician, 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 now on Knopf.

Represented by Sarah Bowlin

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Out now – The Great Offshore Grounds

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First novel – Zazen

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