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Vauhini Vara in conversation with ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon
Vauhini Vara is a journalist, fiction writer, and the former business editor of newyorker.com. She lives in Colorado, where she covered the Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit, and is a business and technology correspondent.
Contents
- Vauhini Vara in conversation with ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon
- Early life
- Awards and honors
- References
She was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for almost ten years, where she covered California politics. In 2013, she left the Wall Street Journal to launch Currency, the business section of newyorker.com. She has written for Harper's Magazine, Fast Company, The Atlantic and Businessweek and WIRED. In 2017 she became a staff writer for California Sunday, covering politics in the western United States.
Vara is a recipient of the O. Henry Award for her fiction writing, and has published stories in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, among other publications. She studied writing at Stanford University and the Iowa Writers Workshop.
M.E. Kabul writes in the journal, Network World of Vara's reportage on corporate computer systems.
Early life
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Vauhini Vara was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) and in Oklahoma City and Seattle in the United States.
Awards and honors
In 2015 Vara received the O. Henry Award for writing, for her story, I, Buffalo. In 2013 she received a McDowell Colony fellowship, and a grant from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Vara received awards for her journalism from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Northwest Journalists of Color.