Louise Gallop was born and grew up in New York City. She taught school there until, on a vacation trip, she fell in love with Alaska and changed her life by moving north to Anchorage in 1961. She continued to teach until retirement in 1979.
For thirty-six years she spent some time each summer in what is now a part of Denali National Park. There, in 1967, she acquired a placer gold claim which she held and worked, in varying degrees, until 1995.
In retirement, she has been able to pusue several long-held interests. She volunteers at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and works at creative writing. After taking classes in poetry and in writing for children, she currently is active in support groups in both fields. Also, for almost 20 years, she has been one of a small group of teachers (active and retired) who edit an annual volume of poetry written by children in the Anchorage elementary schools.
Of her own work, in addition to On a Day of White Trees, which appears in two anthologies, a few of her poems have appeared in other publications. She is the author (though not the illustrator of Owl's Secret, a children's picture book.
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