Louise is a Perth (Boorloo) based writer of young adult and children’s stories and poetry. With a love of the curious, gothic and the unexplained, she also writes flash fiction and short stories for children that have grown up.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing and Literature). Her short story ‘Hush’ was awarded a ‘Commended’ in the KSP Writers Centre Short Fiction Prize in 2023. Other stories have been shortlisted and published in KSP anthologies and shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction.

Publications in 2024 include poetry in the children’s poetry anthology Right Way Down and Other Poems, an Alphabet Soup Books and Fremantle Press collaboration and a micro memoir in the latest Night Parrot Press anthology, titled Our Selves.

Her speculative fiction story, ‘Just Don’t Run’ was published in the little journal first edition, published in August, 2024.

Most recently, two of her spooky stories, ‘I Told You So’ and ‘The Image of Elise’ were shortlisted and appear in the 2024 KSP Anthology, ‘Duet and Other Stories’ by Dragonfly Publishing.

 A member of ASA, The Peter Cowan Writers Centre and SCBWI, Louise is currently writing a speculative fiction collection for children.