Autumnal

Laurie Koensgen lives in Ottawa, Canada, where she advocates for the arts and teaches creative writing to middle school students. Her poems have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Literary Review of Canada, In/Words, Barren Magazine, Juniper: A Poetry Journal, Kissing Dynamite, Black Bough Poetry, Re-side and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry 2018, and recently received Honourable Mentions in Arc’s Diana Brebner Prize and The New Quarterly’s Occasional Verse Contest.