Louise Wallwein MBE is an award-winning playwright, poet and performer. She grew up in children's homes in the UK; she lived in thirteen different homes. Louise wrote her first play at the age of 17 and her career took off in 1998. Her plays have been broadcast by the BBC and she was Poet in Residence in Queensland, Australian in 2006 and Writer in Residence at the Centre for Creative Writing in Winnipeg, Canada also in 2006.