Louisa Deasey
Louisa Deasey is a Francophile based in Melbourne, Australia who makes up for it by drinking coffee from a soup-sized bowl each morning.
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A Poet, a War, and the Letters from Saint Clair
As the bus pulled into Saint Clair after the long journey from Toulon in the South of France, I finally let myself believe I’d see it:…
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About the Journalist
Louisa Deasey is a freelance writer and twice-published author of two memoirs: Love & Other U-Turns (Allen and Unwin, 2010) and A Letter From Paris (Scribe, 2018). She teaches memoir from her online writing portal (AKA the computer) at home base and loves cats, kindness, and coffee.