Vauhini Vara

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Vauhini Vara is a Canadian-born American journalist, fiction writer, and the former business editor of [1].[1] She lives in Colorado and is a contributing writer for The New Yorkers website.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

She was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal for almost ten years, where she covered Silicon Valley and California politics.[6][7] 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.[8][9][10][11][12] In 2017, she worked as a staff writer for California Sunday, covering politics in the western United States.[13]

Vara is a recipient of the O. Henry Award for her fiction writing, and has published stories in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, among other publications.[14][5] 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.[15][16]

Awards and honors[]

In 2015, Vara received the O. Henry Award for writing, for her story, I, Buffalo.[5] In 2013 she received a McDowell Colony fellowship.[17] She has also received a grant from the Rona Jaffe Foundation.[18] Vara received awards for her journalism from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Northwest Journalists of Color.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ "Newyorker.com Names Vauhini Vara Its New Business Editor". The Association of Magazine Media. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Vauhini Vara". Vauhini Vara. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  3. ^ "Vauhini Vara". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  4. ^ "Newyorker.com Hires Business Editor". Observer. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  5. ^ a b c "The O. Henry Prize Stories: Author Spotlight Vauhini Vara". Random House. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Vauhini Vara".
  7. ^ "Vauhini Vara Staff reporter, The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  8. ^ Vara, Vauhini (May 2017). "Bee-Brained Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community". Harpers Magazine. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  9. ^ Vara, Vauhini (October 27, 2016). "Clothing Keeps Getting Cheaper, and Factory Workers Are Paying the Price". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  10. ^ Vara, Vauhini (June 2016). "The Energy Interstate". The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  11. ^ "Vauhini Vara". WIRED. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  12. ^ Vara, Vauhini. "We Will Literally Predict their Outcomes". WIRED. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Vauhini Vara - News, Articles, Biography, Photos". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "MacDowell Colony: The Portable McDowell". Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ 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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