Louie Stowell
Louie Stowell was born in London and has lived there ever since, except for a short stint in Watford to study advertising. She’s worked as a copywriter, cartoonist, PR and in-house non-fiction writer, and was Publisher at Ladybird/Penguin Random House before writing full-time.
Louie’s novels include The Dragon in the Library, Otherland, and the Sunday Times-bestselling Loki: A Bad God’s Guide series, which has been translated into over 30 languages. Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good won the FCBG Children’s Book Award and the Booksellers’ Association’s Books Are My Bag Readers Award and was The Week Junior’s Children’s Audiobook of the Year. Louie’s picture books include A Midsummer Night’s Drama and The Tantrum.
Louie grew up on a diet of Tolkien, “Doctor Who”, Ursula Le Guin, live action role play, “Just William”, 2000AD, Elfquest, John Christopher and Nicholas Fisk. She loves comics, science fiction, fantasy and anything funny. At university, she wrote her thesis on comics, and once won a prize for Anglo-Saxon. She likes woods, urban foxes and mythology.
Louie lives in Hackney with her wife, Karen, and a nameless creepy puppet that is probably cursed.
