Mellissa Fung is a veteran journalist, author and award-winning filmmaker. She has produced original award-winning documentaries for Al-Jazeera International, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and TV Ontario, among others.

She covered the war in Afghanistan, leading to her bestselling first book, UNDER AN AFGHAN SKY, which chronicled her experience as a hostage after she was kidnapped while on assignment in Kabul in 2008. Since then, Fung has focused on human rights reporting, with a focus on women and children in conflict. She is a frequent contributor to The Globe and Mail, and her work also has appeared in The Huffington Post and The Toronto Star, and on PBS.

She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York. She was appointed as an officer to the Order of Canada in 2024 for her work with women in conflict. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Paul, and her scruffy rescue dog, Sammy.

Books by Mellissa Fung

The Last Mandarin

by Louise Penny and Mellissa Fung - Fiction, Political Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

A mother and daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller about family and power that reaches from Tiananmen Square all the way to the White House.