[9] After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Vanasco moved to New York City to intern for The Paris Review.
[citation needed] Between 2006 and 2011, she contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement,[11] and in 2011 she began blogging for The New Yorker.
In 2019, she published her second memoir, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, which Amazon named one of the twenty best books of the year.
[16] An editor for the Amazon Book Review said that Vanasco's second memoir "adds a different dimension to the #MeToo conversation—one more intimate, insidious, and full of improbable grace.
"[18] Vanasco is an associate professor of English at Towson University where she teaches creative writing.