Julia Smuts Louw

Julia Smuts Louw is a screenwriter, prose writer, and poet. Recent projects include the Annie Award-winning Star Wars short film Aau’s Song and the Emmy Award-winning BBC One Christmas Day special The Smeds and the Smoos, which also won the Prix Jeunesse and The Japan Prize.

Her prose fiction has been published by Random House/Struik and Catalyst Press. Her poetry has appeared in New Contrast, Stanzas, the AVBOB Poetry Project, Beyond Words, and Literary Mama. She is also a committee member of the long-standing Cape Town poetry forum, Off the Wall. She lives in Cape Town with her husband, two children, a cat, and two rabbits.