Louise Crisp graduated from the Australian National University with a BA (1983) and has a Graduate Diploma in Humanities (French) from the University of New England. Over the years she has worked in a number of different places and jobs both in Australia and NZ. She lived in SA between 1985-88, and it was here that she started writing and was first published.
Louise has received grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the SA Dept of the Arts, the Sydney Carnivale Festival 1989, Arts Victoria (a Division of the Dept of Arts, Sport & Tourism) and a Regional Writer's Fellowship from the Eleanor Dark Foundation (Varuna).