PP Wong is a Vancouver-based author, screenwriter, and editor. Her debut novel, The Life of a Banana, was a finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction and was featured in many publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, Corriere Della Sera, The Straits Times, Bangkok Post and Vanity Fair. Wong has also written for non-profits that fight for equality and lived in countries where freedom is suppressed, experiences that inspired her to write Slice the Water.