Leanne Hall is an Australian author of young adult and children's fiction.
Hall's debut novel This is Shyness won the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing (2009). Her novel Iris and the Tiger won the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature (2017). Her most recent novel, The Gaps, won the Davitt Award for Best Young Adult Novel, Adelaide Festival Award for Literature: Young Adult Fiction, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, and Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult.
In 2013, Hall was an Asialink Artist in Residence at Peking University. In 2014, she participated in Australian Writers Week in China.
Hall graduated from the University of Sydney with a Ph.D. titled "Transitioning through injury: A phenomenological Approach for Ultra-Runners".
Iris and the Tiger was selected for The White Ravens Catalogue (2017).
In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named The Gaps one of the best young adult novels of the year.
Hall's short stories have been published in Meanjin, The Age, Best Australian Stories, Sleepers Almanac, Kill Your Darlings, and Growing Up Asian In Australia.