Louisa Hall

Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard, she played squash professionally while finishing her premedical coursework and working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, is a professor at the University of Iowa, and the Western Writer in Residence at Montana State University.

She is the author of The Carriage House, Speak and Trinity and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.