Mini bio: Luisa Plaja loves words and books. Her novels for teenagers include Split by a Kiss, Extreme Kissing and Swapped by a Kiss, and her latest is Kiss Date Love Hate. She lives in Devon, England, and has two young children.
(Wondering about ‘Plaja’? The ‘j’ is pronounced like a ‘y’; the name is Italian but has origins in the Spanish ‘playa’, meaning ‘beach’.)
Full bio:
Luisa Plaja writes fiction about teenagers and relationships. She has a passion for books, and edits the teen site Chicklish as well as helping to run book clubs in libraries.
Luisa grew up speaking English and Italian, sometimes at the same time. She has a degree in Linguistics and a background in wordy jobs including dictionary editing, television subtitling and linguistic software development.
Luisa’s latest novel is Kiss Date Love Hate, published by Random House. Her novels been translated and published in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Brazil, Germany, Turkey and Poland, and they are available as audiobooks in English. She has also taken part in an interactive e-book project, and has a short story published in an anthology.
Born in Glasgow and brought up in Sicily and London, Luisa Plaja now lives in Devon, England. She has two young children, a boy and a girl.
