Vanessa Chan was born and raised in Malaysia. Her short stories have been published in Electric Lit, Kenyon Review, Ecotone and more. She was the 2021 Stanley Elkin scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and has also received scholar awards to attend the Bread Loaf and Tin House writers’ conferences. THE STORM WE MADE is her first novel.

Books by Vanessa Chan

The Storm We Made

by Vanessa Chan - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

THE STORM WE MADE is a spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII --- and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.