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Vanessa Veselka

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

Storm Surge v Storm Tide

August 27, 2011January 24, 2019 by vveselka

earthquake surprises east coast

August 23, 2011January 24, 2019 by vveselka

A morning in Portland, Oregon.

July 26, 2011July 26, 2011 by vveselka

Zazen, The Guardian UK, Bookslut, and the fateful voyage of the Essex

July 22, 2011January 24, 2019 by vveselka

Substations and transmission lines, a tour of the uncanny?

June 21, 2011January 24, 2019 by vveselka

I’ve always wanted to be on a Marquis…

June 11, 2011June 11, 2011 by vveselka

I’m writing things for the Powells blog this week, links below!

May 25, 2011 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

View story at Medium.com

other work in other places…

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