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, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and named best book of the year by NPR, Amazon, Elle, Goodreads, and more — 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.

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