Louise Powell

Louise Powell is an award-winning working-class writer from Middlesbrough. She won the Sid Chaplin Northern Writers' Award 2023, and was the joint recipient of the Peter Lathan Prize for New Playwriting 2022. Louise's plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra and performed at nine theatres. She has written three commissioned short art films, as well as two Arts Council funded audio documentary series, and was published in Kit de Waal's acclaimed Common People anthology. She is the author of the Coal Face poetry and creative non-fiction collections. She has a PhD in English from Sheffield Hallam University. She has also held a Professional Greyhound Trainer's Licence. Underdogs is her first novel.