Career
Her nonfiction has appeared in Salon, The Atlantic, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Maximum Rock"n"Roll, Bitch Magazine, and The American Reader. In 2013, she was a chosen as a MacDowell Fellow, and her November 2012 Gentlemen’s Quarterly piece entitled "The Truck Stop Killer" is part of the 2013 edition of Best American Essays. Veselka"s bio says she has been "a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology." In the 1990s she played in the bands Bell and The Pinkos and ran a record label.
She graduated from Reed College and lives in Portland, Oregon.
