Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara is a Canadian-born American journalist, fiction writer, and the former business editor of . She lives in Colorado and is a contributing writer for "The New Yorker"s website.
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 was a reporter for the "Wall Street Journal" for almost ten years, where she covered Silicon Valley and 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", "Businessweek", and "WIRED". In 2017, she worked as 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.
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. She has also received 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.