Louise Katz is an Australian fantasy and science fiction novelist and academic.
Katz was born in Canberra, Australia, and attended art school in Adelaide.
[1] She is a Doctor of Creative Arts and has taught creative writing and academic writing at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Sydney.
Her second novel, The Other Face of Janus, was released in 2001; the book won the 2001 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.
[3][4] The Orchid Nursery from 2016 won the Norma K. Hemming award for that year.