Vanessa Chan
Agent:
Nicola Chang
Translation Rights Contact:
Zara Petranova
Other rights held by:
Trellis Literary Management
EXTERNAL LINKs:
https://www.vanessajchan.com/
Photo © Bernie Chan
Vanessa Chan is the Malaysian author of The Storm We Made published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and Marysue Rucci Books/S&S in 2024. It has published in over twenty languages, about a discontented housewife who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading forces of Japan during WWII, and a story collection about feral girls in post-colonial Malaysia trying to solve the mysteries of their bloodlines, which is forthcoming from Marysue Rucci Books.
Her other work has been published in Conjunctions, Electric Lit, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and more. She has received scholarship support from the Sewanee, Tin House, and Bread Loaf writers conferences, and is the co-curator of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn.