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Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of four books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Lovers, and a founding editor of The Believer magazine. She is also the co-editor of Always Apprentices, a collection of interviews with writers, and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. As a fellow at the Sundance Labs, she developed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name into a script, which received the Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. Two of Vida’s novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the year, and she is the winner of the Kate Chopin Award, given to a writer whose female protagonist chooses an unconventional path. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children, and since 2002 has served on the board of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring lab for youth.


“That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months.”
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“Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.”
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“Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car.”
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“People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.”
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