Vanessa Veselka

Vanessa Veselka (Portland, OR) has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. Her work has appeared in Arthur, Bust, Bitch, Maximum Rock ’n’ Roll, and elsewhere. Zazen is her first novel.