Louise Murphy was born in 1943 in Kentucky. She attended the Universty of Kentucky and upon graduating became an English teacher in Newark, DE. She then went on to earn her master's degree of art at San Francisco State University and became a professor at the university from 1977-1982.
She started writing novels in 1980 with her first book, My Garden: A Journal for Gardening around the Year. Her next novel was The Sea Within. After writing it, she went on to teach novel writing at the Acalanes Adult Education in California. She also wrote several poetry pieces and essays for newspapers and magazines. In 2003 she wrote her very popular book, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival. She won the Writers Digest award for poetry and she also won the Shaunt Basmajian Award for books in 2003.
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