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Join us for a conversation with Vanessa Hua. She will discuss her latest novel, Forbidden City. 

Vanessa Hua is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (2016), winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a finalist for the California Book Award, as well as A River of Stars (2018). Her latest novel, Forbidden City, was published in Spring 2022. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice reporting as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Asian American Journalists’ Association, and Best of the West. She is a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, she has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and ZYZZYVA, among others, and has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea and elsewhere. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere.

This program is made possible by the generous support of the Friends of the Mountain View Library.