Lou Hallow is the pen name of Irish author Louise Hall, who writes cozy fantasy rooted in Irish folklore - small Irish towns that know more than they let on. She lives in Malahide, County Dublin, and has been writing for as long as she can remember, across fiction, non-fiction and short stories.

Under her own name she has published two works of non-fiction with The Columba Press, one of them translated into Italian by Edizioni Piemme, and the novel Pilgrim with Mercier Press, Ireland's oldest publishing house, endorsed by Donal Ryan and Carmel Harrington. Her short fiction has appeared in The Irish Times, and she has been shortlisted for the Colm Tóibín International Short Story Competition, the RTÉ Guide/Penguin Short Story Award and the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards