The Last Cat

Born in Montreal and raised in Hudson, Quebec, Louise Carson studied music in Montreal and Toronto, played jazz piano and sang in the chorus of the Canadian Opera Company. She has published eighteen books: three collections of poetry--A Clearing, Dog Poems, and The Truck Driver Treated for Shock; three stand-alone works of fiction--Mermaid Road, Executor, and The Last Unsuitable Man; The Chronicles of Deasil Widdy trilogy--In Which (shortlisted for the 2019 QWF price for Children's literature and the 2019 ReLit Award), Measured, and Third Circle; as well as the stand-alone prequel to the Deasil Widdy books--Rope: A Tale Told in Prose and Verse; and her Maples Mystery series--The Cat Among Us, The Cat Vanishes, The Cat Between, The Cat Possessed, A Clutter of Cats, The Cat Looked Back, The Cat Crosses a Line, The Cat Laughs, and The Last Cat.
Her poems appear in literary magazines, chapbooks and anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2013, 2021, and 2024. She's been shortlisted in FreeFall magazine's annual contest three times and won a Manitoba Magazine Award. She has presented her work in many public forums in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Saskatoon, Kingston and New York City. Carson lives with two cats in St-Lazare, Quebec, where she writes and either shovels snow or gardens, depending on the season.