VANESSA CHAN is the Malaysian author of the internationally bestselling novel THE STORM WE MADE, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, and New York Times Editor’s Choice — about the unlikeliest of spies — a discontent mother and wife in 1930s British Malaya who, in becoming a spy for the Japanese, unwittingly ushers in the most violent war her country has ever seen. THE STORM WE MADE will be translated into more than twenty languages worldwide.

Vanessa is also the author of the forthcoming THE UGLIEST BABIES IN THE WORLD, a story collection about feral girls in post-colonial Malaysia trying to solve the mysteries of their bloodlines.

Her other work has been published in Vogue, Esquire, and more. She grew up in Malaysia and is now based mostly in Brooklyn.

Vanessa is represented by Michelle Brower and Stephanie Delman at Trellis Literary Management.

SHORT (for use online): VANESSA CHAN is the Malaysian author of internationally bestselling The Storm We Made, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, and New York Times Editor’s Choice. The novel, her first, will be translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. Her other work has been published in Vogue, Esquire, and more. Vanessa grew up in Malaysia and is now based mostly in Brooklyn.