Kevin Chong is an author of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel The Plague. His works have been named books of the year by The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Amazon.ca; listed for a CBC prize, a BC Book Prize, and a National Magazine Award; optioned for film and television; and published in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Chong lives in Vancouver.