Thalia Vacha
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About
Thalia Vacha is an essayist, fiction writer, and poet. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the the Georgia Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland Magazine, The Audacity, Longreads, Black Warrior Review, and The Masters Review. She is a Substack bestseller.
She was a finalist for the 2023 BRINK Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing and the 2023 CRAFT Flash Prose Prize, a semifinalist for the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, longlisted for the 2026 CRAFT Award for Excellence, and the recipent of an honorable mention for the 95th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Her work has received support from the Tin House Scholarship for Trans Writers, the Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholarship, the Marius DeBrabant Fund, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
She was born in London and now lives between Bangkok and Los Angeles, where she is completing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a BA in Philosophy from King's College London.
