Career
She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons. The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota.
While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English.
They both took positions at Brigham Young University in 1985, the same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. The book later became a children"s choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.
The 5 is Silent. Her A Dance Foreign Three was also an American Library Association Best Book.
She is currently a weekly contributor to The Apron Stage.
