About

Eliza Louise (she/her) is a fantasy writer whose stories are infused with surrealist imagery. As an immigrant with Middle Eastern and European heritage, she mostly writes about outcasts searching for a place in the world, be it our world or another. (Write what you know, she whispers, while hunched over her laptop.)

With a BFA in painting, her focus and passion shifted to writing when she began seeking more ways to escape reality (because real life is terrible). She has since studied creative writing at the University of Oxford, University of Toronto, and Yale University - where she attended the Yale Writers' Workshop 2023. Most recently, she was a participant in the Writing with the Soul Workshop, led by NYT Bestseller Adrienne Young.

Though a novelist by nature, she also writes many short stories (and was shortlisted in Voyage YA's Lucky No. 7 Contest for her flash fiction story, 'A Daughter Called Hope') and dabbles in poetry (her poem 'For Now' was turned into a public art project in Canada in the spring of 2023). 

When not writing (or working as a corporate witch), her hobbies include self-deprecation, thinking about writing and convincing herself that it's the same thing as actually writing, and staring blankly into the void.

PROJECTS

Eliza is currently querying BITTER CONDUCT, a YA gothic fantasy meets murder mystery, with light horror elements. Complete at 68,700 words, this standalone will appeal to readers of stories sprouting with deadly flowers and even deadlier secrets (oh, and witches!)

In addition to querying, she has a completed YA Epic Fantasy (98,000 words) about monsters, goddesses, and sky pirates, and is currently drafting an Upper YA Dark Academia Fantasy steeped in magic and astronomy, and the first draft of an Adult Fantasy that takes all the surrealism she usually writes about and twists it through a much darker angle. (Yes, she does have a hard time taking breaks. How could you tell?)