Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida is the author of the acclaimed novels “The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty,” “The Lovers,” “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name,” “And Now You Can Go,” as well as an essay collection “Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations.” She is a founding co-editor of The Believer magazine, and the editor of “The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.” Vida co-wrote the screenplay for “Away We Go,” directed by Sam Mendes and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker and in The New York Times Book Review. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.