Laurie D. Graham grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, outside of amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario) in the Territory of the Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine. Her maternal family comes from east-central Alberta by way of Ukraine and Poland, and her paternal family comes from central Saskatchewan by way of Northern Ireland and Scotland. She has about a century of history in Canada.

Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education and Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, Calling It Back to Me, is out now with McClelland & Stewart. Recent work can be read in The Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice.

Laurie is also an editor of poetry and prose with two decades of experience working with literary journals in Canada. She is on the steering committee of the Literary Magazines Canada Collective and is vice chair of the Public Lending Right Commission.