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. Before becoming an author, Vanessa was the director of communications at Meta/Instagram. She grew up in Malaysia and is now based mostly in Brooklyn.

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