About

Vauhini Vara, based in San Francisco, is The Wall Street Journal’s lead reporter on politics in California and throughout the West.

Previously, Ms. Vara spent four years as a technology reporter for the Journal in San Francisco and New York, covering Internet and software companies including Facebook and Oracle.

She holds a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, where she studied fiction at the Writers’ Workshop, and her short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Black Warrior Review and Epoch. She is at work on a novel and is represented by Elyse Cheney of Elyse Cheney Literary Associates.

Vauhini holds a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Andrew Altschul, and their dog Jack.

She also sits on the board of the Krishna D. Vara Memorial Fund, which presents an annual $2,000 scholarship to a graduate of Mercer Island High School.

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