M. Renae Dubois, or Renae, as she prefers to be called, is a Brisbane woman who suffered from a brain injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident at the age of 16 and subsequently chose a more alternate path before reaching out intellectually at a later age, with the benefit of lived experience.​

While still young, Renae did well at school as a result of her prolific reading.  In fact, her most enjoyed core subject in year 11 was Logic, a philosophy subject that was self-paced. Renae did well in this subject, and intends to study philosophy in her current Bachelor of Arts degree.

The motor vehicle accident that caused the closed, frontal and temporal lobe injury occurred at Numinbah Valley, near Mt Tambourine on the Gold Coast hinterland. It was a head on collision with a truck on a narrow, blind corner. Renae experienced an almost immediate personality change and began to act in ways that were unfamiliar to herself and those surrounding her. ​

Subsequently, Renae entered the adult world very quickly and totally unprepared. Symptoms of a head injury include risk-taking behaviour, poor judgement, and sometimes, hypersexuality, and this disordered behaviour did occur, and for some time, (but not all the time). ​All along Renae wrote poetry, a skill possibly brought on by the head injury.

Renae published her first book, Curses of Verses: A Head Injury Tale, written mostly in the 1990s in 2020, (soon to be republished and retitled), and since then has taken up reading again. This inspired her next, better book, Utterly: A Biography in Verse.

Lately she is feeling most fulfilled by the decision from the university to admit her as a mature age student.

Renae is planning on spending the rest of her days as student, writer, poet, philosopher, and artist. She has decided against studying Creative Writing however, seeking instead education on content rather than form.

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