Louise Bierig graduated from the University of Iowa's Undergraduate Writers' Workshop. She has written countless short stories, several personal essays, a few poems, and is currently working on two novellas and a novel. She has taught at the William Way Center in Philadelphia and at Soul Source in Swarthmore and Aston. Currently, she leads the Lansdowne Writers' Workshop as well as a workshop for Wallingford Swarthmore Community Classes. In 2021 she became an Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method.
Her short stories, Field of Rye at Twilight (2018), and Sylvia (2019) were published in Philadelphia Stories. In Winter 2020 her flash fiction piece Be the Deer was published in Peregrine Journal Volume XXXIII. In Spring 2020, her flash piece, The Valley of Ebro was published in The Schuylkill Valley Journal, Volume 50. In Winter 2021, her flash piece The Corner Bar Read-In was published by shortedition. In Summer 2021, her short story The Anderson Family Motto was published in Toho Publishing's The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia 2021. In 2022, her short story A Cow Stood in the Field won third place in Mayday Magazine's March Madness Tournament and was subsequently published.
In 2024, she published her poetry in Pure Slush, Lifespan Volume 11: Older and Peregrine Journal Volume XXXVII. In 2005, she published her epic poem, Lake Erie Odyssey in Woodsqueer Literary Journal, Volume II. In 2006, she published 3 poems in Peregrine Journal Volume Praise and Thanks.
Her essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Swarthmorean. Her fiction has won the following awards: 2004: Finalist in novel writing contest sponsored by Suspect Thoughts Press; 1997: Finalist for The Heekin Group Foundation Writer’s & Education Fund; 1992: First prize in Mercyhurst College’s short fiction contest.