Louise Stern: ‘I didn’t think I would ever live in the hearing world, let alone write in it’

Louise Stern, writer and artist. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the Observer

Lisa O’Kelly
The Observer, Sunday 30 May 2010

Louise Stern: ‘I didn’t think I would ever live in the hearing world, let alone write in it’

Louise Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community in California and studied art at America’s only non-hearing university before coming to London to study and work as an assistant to the British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Now her compelling short stories about wild, restless