ANITA ANAND is an author, translator and language teacher from Montreal. She is the author of Swing in the House and Other Stories, which won the 2015 Concordia University First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2016 Relit Award for Fiction and the Montreal Literary Diversity Prize. A Convergence of Solitudes was nominated for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. Anand's translations include Nirliit by Juliana Léveillé-Trudel, which was nominated for the 2018 John Glassco Prize, Lightness by Fanie Demeule, and As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson.