Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

I met Vauhini Vara in early 2022 during a visit to Colorado State University, where her husband, the novelist Andrew Altschul teaches. I liked her immediately (and I rarely like people immediately). When I got home, I looked up Vauhini’s work, which is when I first read “Ghosts,” an essay I went on to teach several times and that I reread every so often just to revel in the surprises of its structure, the genius way that a subtle argument sits within its…