Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara is a Canadian-born American journalist, fiction writer, and the former business editor of The New Yorker.[1] She lives in Colorado and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker website.[2][3][4] Her first novel “The Immortal King Rao” is highly acclaimed and came out in May of 2022.[5]

Biography

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Vauhini Vara was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) and in Oklahoma City and Seattle in the United States. She graduated from Stanford University in 2004 and went to work for the Wall Street Journal. In 2008 she left the WSJ to attend the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She graduated with her MFA in 2010 and then returned to the WSJ for the next three years.[6]

She was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for almost ten years, where she covered Silicon Valley and California politics.[7][8] 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, Businessweek, and WIRED.[9][10][11][12][13] In 2017, she worked as a staff writer for California Sunday, covering politics in the western United States.[14]

Vara is a recipient of the O. Henry Award for her fiction writing, and has published stories in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, among other publications.[15][6] 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.[16][17]

Awards and honors

In 2015, Vara received the O. Henry Award for writing, for her story, I, Buffalo.[6] In 2013 she received a McDowell Colony fellowship.[18] She has also received a grant from the Rona Jaffe Foundation.[19] Vara received awards for her journalism from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Northwest Journalists of Color.[20]

Bibliography
  • The Immortal King Rao (2022)

References
  1. "Newyorker.com Names Vauhini Vara Its New Business Editor". The Association of Magazine Media. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
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  3. "Vauhini Vara". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  4. "Newyorker.com Hires Business Editor". Observer. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  5. "10 books by Colorado authors you should read in 2022". The Denver Post. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  6. "The O. Henry Prize Stories: Author Spotlight Vauhini Vara". Random House. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  7. "Vauhini Vara".
  8. "Vauhini Vara Staff reporter, The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  9. Vara, Vauhini (May 2017). "Bee-Brained Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community". Harpers Magazine. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  10. Vara, Vauhini (October 27, 2016). "Clothing Keeps Getting Cheaper, and Factory Workers Are Paying the Price". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  11. Vara, Vauhini (June 2016). "The Energy Interstate". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  12. "Vauhini Vara". WIRED. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  13. Vara, Vauhini. "We Will Literally Predict their Outcomes". WIRED. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  14. McGray, Douglas (2017-03-28). "I'm excited to welcome @vauhinivara (formerly of @NewYorker, SF bureau of @WSJ) to @CalSunday as our new politics staff writer". @dougmcgray. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  15. "Vauhini Vara - News, Articles, Biography, Photos". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  16. Kabay, M.E. (August 30, 2007). "Ethical decision-making: Identifying the ethical issue; * Questions that help frame ethical issues". Network World. Archived from the original on November 14, 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  17. Kabul, M.E. (September 4, 2007). "Ethical decision-making: Using formal and informal guidelines; * Looking for explicit and implicit ethical guidelines". Network World. Archived from the original on November 14, 2017.
  18. "MacDowell Colony: The Portable McDowell". Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  19. "A Conversation with Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow Vauhini Vara | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". writersworkshop.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  20. Bruno, Anna. "A Conversation with Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow Vauhini Vara". University of Iowa, The Writers Workshop. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
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