Louisa Adjoa ParkerLouisa Adjoa Parker writes poetry, fiction and black history. She is of White English and Ghanaian heritage. She has lived in the West Country for most of her life, and began writing poetry to explore her feelings of being “different”, and the racismand she experienced in her early years. Salt-sweat and Tears was Louisa’s first poetry collection, in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in a range of anthologies and magazines, including Envoi, Coffee-house Poetry, Wasafiri, Ouroboros, The Forward Book of Poetry 2008, and Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets. One of her poems was short-listed by the Bridport Prize. She has recently begun writing fiction and her stories have been anthologised and published in Toasted Cheese and PennyShorts. She is currently completing her first novel, which was long-listed by the Mslexia Novel Competition. Louisa has also written several books exploring the history of Black and Minority Ethnic people in Dorset. Read More Read Less