Rands

Michael Rands was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and received his MA in creative writing from the University of Cape Town in 2007. His first novel, Praise Routine Number Four, was nominated for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. He co-wrote an economic satire, The Yamaguchi Manuscripts (2012), and most recently a non-fiction work, Kamikaze Economics: The Story of Modern Japan (2013). He was the Jack Kerouac winter writer in residence 2012/2013 in Orlando Florida, and recently served on the fiction selection committee for I-Park in Connecticut, another residency he attended. He is currently finishing off work on a new novel, As Dark As It Gets, set in modern day Japan. Michael has worked as a freelance writer, television writer and director. He lived in Japan for three years, and currently divides his time between the United States and South Africa.