Vanessa (she/her) is a queer dyke writer living in Portland, OR. She’s the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma. Previously she worked as the community editor at Autostraddle, a teaching artist with Literary Arts, and an instructor at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and she is a Tin House Summer Workshop alum and a Hedgebrook Spring Retreat alum. Vanessa writes about friendship, home, loneliness, grief, sex, and the body; her work has been published in Vogue, Nylon, Hey Alma, Catapult, Autostraddle, Shape, among others, and her essay, “If I’m Lonely,” is included in Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic, recently published from Harper Perennial. She is represented by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency and is currently working on her debut novel This Is A Queer Love Story.