Renae Lucas-Hall is an Australian-born British novelist and writer at Cherry Blossom Stories. She grew up in Melbourne but has been living in the UK for the past 15 years. She completed a B.A. in Japanese language and culture at Monash University and an Advanced Diploma in Business Marketing at RMIT University. Renae taught English in Tokyo for several years and continued to teach English part-time to the wives and children of Japanese expats when she returned to Melbourne. She also worked for several Japanese companies in Australia. Renae now lives in Gloucestershire in the UK with her British husband and their Siberian husky.
Renae is the author of Tokyo Hearts: A Japanese Love Story (2012, ranked #1 in Coming of Age books on Amazon Japan) and Tokyo Tales: A Collection of Japanese Short Stories (2014). Connect with Renae on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Visit her website cherryblossomstories.com.
Reviews:
Structures of Kyoto: Writers in Kyoto Anthology 4
Killing Commendatore—A self-Portrait of Murakami’s Literary Landscape
The Memory Police—One Book You’ll Never Forget
In Praise of Shadows—A Mind-Changing Interpretation of Japanese Aesthetics (Vintage, 2019)
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories