Vendela Vida is the author of, Girls on the Verge, a journalistic study of female initiation rituals. She is also the author of a novel, And Now You Can Go, which begins with its narrator, 21 year old Ellis, being forced at gunpoint to sit and talk with a man in a New York City park as he contemplates a murder/suicide.
She is the coeditor of the Believer magazine and the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.