- 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.
- Her mother was born and raised in Sweden.
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