Veteran journalist, published author and aspiring novelist Vera HC Chan has worked at the nexus of journalism and technology, from small papers to the world’s biggest online destinations (Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN), and is now as director of news & media at Steelwork, a narrative architecture agency. Her fiction accolades include awards from Sisters in Crime and Women’s National Book Association Literary Awards, SF chapter for works in progress. On the shorts side, she won The Los Angeles Review 2023 Short Fiction Award for “These Poor Mothers” and her work appears in Tales of Music, Murder & Mayhem: Bouchercon Anthology and Midnight Hour. She also produced the nonfiction community memoir, Working the Way: Martial Artists on Their Career Journeys.