There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Bio: Vanessa Veselka is an American writer best known for her 2012 PEN / Robert W. Bingham prize prize-winning debut novel Zazen. Her nonfiction has appeared in Salon, The Atlantic, GQ, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, Bitch Magazine, and The American Reader.