Anita Chong

Anita Chong is the Editorial Director of Fiction at McClelland & Stewart, where she edits literary fiction and memoir, and champions writers from traditionally underrepresented communities. Some of the highly acclaimed books she has edited include Sharon Bala’s The Boat People, Shashi Bhat’s Death by a Thousand Cuts, Michael Christie’s Greenwood, Tsering Yangzom Lama’s We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, Jen Sookfong Lee’s Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, Janika Oza’s A History of Burning, and Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife.