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

Tag: Fall 2020

The Real Cover…

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 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

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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