Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation.
Alan Warner called it "an amazing debut: vibrantly perceptive, gentle, funny and profound".
[2] Her first novel, Ismael and His Sisters, was written and set in a deaf village in the Yucatán Peninsula, where Stern communicated in Mayan Sign Language.
[5] She has also written plays, including The Ugly Birds and The Interpreter, which was performed at the Bush Theatre.
[11] The premiere screening of Celan and accompanying live performance took place at a PoetryFilm Equinox event curated by Zata Kitowski.