About Leanne
Leanne Hall is an award-winning Australian author for young adults and children.
Her debut novel, This Is Shyness, was the winner of the Text Prize for Children's and Young Adult Writing, and was followed by a sequel Queen of the Night. Her novel for younger readers, Iris and the Tiger, won The Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Her most recent YA novel, The Gaps, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Award and the Ethel Turner Prize at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Leanne started her career in the world of short stories and has had stories published in Meanjin, Age, Best Australian Stories and the anthology Growing Up Asian In Australia. She was an Asialink Artist in Residence at Peking University in 2013 and participated in Australian Writers Week in China in 2014.
Leanne is currently a PhD student at RMIT Melbourne, and lives on the unceded and sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations.
