Laurie Koensgen is a poet and educator living in Ottawa, Canada. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Barren Magazine, Juniper: A Poetry Journal, Kissing Dynamite, Black Bough Poetry, Burning House Press, Nightingale & Sparrow, Mookychick, The New Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere in North America and the UK. Laurie is a founding member of the Ruby Tuesday Writing Group. Her latest chapbook, Blue Moon / Orange Begonias, is with Rose Garden Press.