Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including LET THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ERASE YOUR NAME and THE DIVER'S CLOTHES LIE EMPTY. Her new novel is WE RUN THE TIDES. She is a founding editor of THE BELIEVER and coeditor of THE BELIEVER BOOK OF WRITERS TALKING TO WRITERS and CONFIDENCE, OR THE APPEARANCE OF CONFIDENCE, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.