The San Francisco Chronicle called Vida and Eggers "the current literary equivalent of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.".
Attended Middlebury College in Vermont and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
A teacher and founding board member of 826 Valencia, a writing center for young people.
Was a slush-pile intern at the Paris Review, and wrote subtitles for the Thai film "The Legend of Suriyothai" at Zoetrope Studios, before becoming a writer.