Anita Anand is the author of the novel A Convergence of Solitudes, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh McLennan Fiction Award. Her collection of short stories, Swing in the House and Other Stories, won the QWF-Concordia First Book Prize in 2015. She has translated three novels from French to English and is currently working on a fourth. Anita likes to give tips on how to get over writer’s block, and on how to get published.