Louisa Hall is an American novelist and poet. She was born in 1982, and raised in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard with a BA in English, she played squash professionally and worked in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin Psychiatric Hospital.
Hall is the author of the novels Speak and The Carriage House, and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.