About

Vauhini Vara is a journalist and writer in Iowa City, on leave from her position as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she spent four years covering the technology industry and discussing it on CNN, CNBC, NPR and elsewhere.

Vauhini is the first recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, with fiction published or forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Epoch, and Black Warrior Review. She has also received a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the Workshop. She is completing a short-story collection and a novel and is represented by Elyse Cheney of Elyse Cheney Literary Associates.

Vauhini began her writing career as a stringer for the Seattle Times; for her work there and elsewhere, she received a Newhouse Scholarship from the Asian American Journalists’ Association. She joined the Wall Street Journal in 2003 as the first recipient of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Internship; she began work as a New York-based technology reporter for WSJ.com in 2004 and moved in 2006 to the newspaper’s bureau in San Francisco, where she spent more than two years covering Facebook, Oracle and other technology  companies.

She also sits on the board of the Krishna D. Vara Foundation, which presents an annual $2,000 scholarship to a graduate of Mercer Island High School. Krishna Vara, her sister, came up with the idea for a scholarship, meant to honor true friendship, remarkable spirit and community involvement, before she passed away in 2001.

Vauhini holds a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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