Anita Anand was born in Montreal and lives in a suburb of that city now. When she was younger, she moved back and forth between her hometown and such places as the Bronx, Bedfordshire, England and Richmond, B.C. In every neighbourhood where she has lived, she has been the only person her age of Indian origin, a priceless gift to her development as a writer.

This Anita Anand is not the Canadian Minister of Defense, nor the British novelist and broadcast journalist, although she regularly receives their email. Unlike her namesakes, she was an ESL instructor until recently and now focusses on pitching literary translations to publishers, practicing for her guitar lessons, and trying to save the world through signing petitions. She also writes, but only sporadically.

A Convergence of Solitudes, her first novel, won last year’s gold Independent Publishing (Ippy) Award, was a finalist for the 2022 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, the 2023 Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Award and a Foreword Indies Award.
Anita’s first book, Swing in the House and Other Stories won the QWF-Concordia University First Book Prize in 2015 and was nominated for both the 2015 Montreal Diversity Prize for a First Publication and the 2016 Relit Award.

Anita has translated four novels by Québec authors: As the Andes Disappeared, by Caroline Dawson, Lightness and Mukbang, both by Fanie Demeule, and Nirliit, by Juliana-Leveillé-Trudel.