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Louise Wallace is a writer and editor, from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of the novel Ash and four previous collections of poems.

Louise is the founder of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the 2022 editor of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems. 

She lives in Ōtepoti | Dunedin with her family.