{"id":1459,"date":"2023-08-21T21:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/vauhini-vara\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:15:59","slug":"vauhini-vara","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/vauhini-vara\/","title":{"rendered":"Vauhini Vara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vauhini Vara<\/strong> is the author of <em>This is Salvaged<\/em> and <em>The Immortal King Rao<\/em>, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is also a journalist, writing for <em>Wired<\/em>, <em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, and others. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop&#8217;s Book Project and is the secretary of the mentorship collective Periplus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1461\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-657x1024.jpg 657w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-768x1197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-986x1536.jpg 986w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-1314x2048.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-1140x1776.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-920x1433.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-575x896.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-380x592.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1-800x1247.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Vara_This-is-Salvaged_THIS-IS-SALVAGED-final-cover-Vauhini-Vara-scaled-1.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vauhini Vara is the author of This is Salvaged and The Immortal King Rao, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is also a journalist, writing for Wired, The New York Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1460,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1459\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}