[4] In 2005, She made her debut as a literary writer with De Parbo-blues, a coming of age story with autobiographical elements: a girl from mixed parents leaves for Suriname to discover the history of her father who comforted his homesickness with music and marihuana.

[6] Leuwsha started to work for the Dutch Embassy in Paramaribo,[4] continued her writing career with Solo, een liefde,[1] and contributed to a reprint of Anton de Kom's classic Wij slaven van Suriname.

[7] In 2018, she wrote and directed Frits de Gids, a story about lovers caught between the western world and Maroon traditions,[8] which was released by VPRO Cinema.

[9] In 2020, Leuwsha gave the sixth Cola Debrot Lectures which was pre-recorded and published on YouTube due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[10] In her 2020 novel Plantage Wildlust, Leuwsha did not focus just the known inequalities on a plantation in 1911, but also the subtle rivalry between freed slaves and the Indo-Surinamese contract workers, and the complex hierarchy between the owner and black supervisor.