Writer and historian
About
Vanessa Freije is a writer and an award-winning historian working across multiple genres, including fiction, journalism, and memoir. Her reporting and essays have appeared in Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, Public Books, Tahoma Literary Review and elsewhere. She currently is working on her debut novel, which is informed by her fifteen years living and researching in central Mexico. Her creative and academic writing have received support from Artist Trust, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright-García Robles, among other organizations. She is associate professor of International Studies and History at the University of Washington, where she chairs the program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She lives between Seattle and Mexico City.
She is represented by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management.
