Louisa Deasey studied Professional Writing & Editing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Soon after, Louisa built a successful freelance writing career as a lifestyle journalist for print and digital publications including The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Elle, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and many more. Louisa’s first travel memoir, Love & Other U-Turns, was published by Allen & Unwin and nominated for two awards. Louisa’s second book, A Letter From Paris, was published by Scribe in 2018, reprinted in 2019 and 2020, has been a bestseller on multiple continents and produced as an audio production by Blackstone. In 2018, Louisa launched her first digital course, and has since taught hundreds of writers and entrepreneurs how to write, pitch, market and sell a memoir or autobiographical work of nonfiction. She’s given numerous radio interviews on international radio including the BBC London and ABC Radio National and many more podcasts and radio. Louisa has delivered in-person workshops on the psychotherapeutic aspects of structuring personal narrative to various notable organisations including the Alliance Francaise de Sydney, the Paris to Provence Festival in Melbourne and the Special Air Service Association of Australia. 

Louisa’s work blends a unique combination of 20+ years’ expertise as a widely published writer and author, with vast experience teaching personal and commercial aspects to storytelling, with old and new media, publishing and authorship, and authentic strategies for first-time authors to publicise, sell and promote their work.

For enquiries email hello@louisadeasey.com