Michelle Jana Chan has spent the last 25 years writing for publications such as Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, Newsweek and the Daily Telegraph, as well as broadcasting for the BBC, Deutsche Welle and CNN. Her TEDx talk is Hitchhiking, galaxies, and why travel is not bad for the planet.
Her novel Song (Unbound) was described by Bernardine Evaristo as ‘a wonderfully lush and atmospheric odyssey of survival against all odds’; Elif Shafak called it: ‘Precise, heartfelt, breathtaking’. Michelle hosts the literary/travel podcast The Wandering Book Collector and her next book, Two Friends (And Other Stories) will be published in 2022.