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Vanessa Veselka

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

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I just finished a Zoom tour of the Internet – more dates posted soon!

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

Buy from Indiebound

First novel – Zazen

Buy from Powell’s or AbeBooks

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