Jane Yang is a USA Today bestselling Australian author of historical fiction and the author of her debut novel, The Lotus Shoes. Born in a Chinese-Vietnamese enclave in Saigon, Vietnam, she moved to Australia with her family at age seven and later worked as a pharmacist and in clinical research before becoming a novelist. Her writing draws inspiration from ancestral stories, Chinese superstitions, historical fiction, and the Cantonese period dramas she watched growing up. Jane Yang is a pen name chosen with the guidance of a feng shui master, and her next historical novel is Winter of the Bride.