About Louise

Hello,
Thanks for visiting my website. I’m a writer originally from Australia. Since the mid-1980s, I’ve lived across four continents. In 1989, I completed an MA in Jungian Psychology in the United States, and in 2014, I moved from Colorado to Lisbon Portugal, where I currently live.

In April, 2025 I turned sixty-five. Mid-sixties feels like a significant new phase of life, the beginning of my ‘third act,’ and thus I consider this not merely a new chapter, but an entirely new volume in my creative writing life.

My previous writing presented on this website includes: a Master’s Thesis, Clarification of Jung’s Concept of the Archetype, completed at twenty-nine; travel articles written in my early thirties; two romcoms Baking at Midnight, and Breakfast at Tildy’s, from my early forties; Market to Mouth, a recession-strategy food blog written during the 2008 financial crisis; followed at fifty-three by an illustrated children’s book, Roger and Simon the Goose Fly South; and from my late fifties, two interview-based biographies: Women Who Walk and The Winding Road to Portugal. Each work emerged from a particular phase of my life.

Now, entering this third act, I’m working on projects that reflect where I am today. The Dressmaker’s Daughter (working title), an autofiction memoir of my mother’s life in 1950s Melbourne as a fashion designer, a career she gave up to marry my father and move to rural Australia to begin a family. Conversations with the Unconscious (working title), a personal memoir in which the narrative weaves together timelines from my life, and selected dreams from my journals that illuminate major life transitions. The third project I contemplated for 35 years and completed in 2026: Slow Blink: A Memoir recounts my relationship with a stray black cat—a meditation on grief, wonder, and the mysterious threads that connect us across species, across time, and across the veil.

This website will transform as new work takes shape. I invite you to check back occasionally. For links to my books, blog and other work please visit the Books and Extra pages.