Laura K. McRae is a teacher in Toronto, Ontario where she lives and writes. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and Houston, Texas, attending Rice University for her undergraduate degree in English, but Toronto is her home.

Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, PIF, Northwind, Room, Boston Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Contemporary Verse 2, Clementine Poetry Journal,  Blast Furnace, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Grain Magazine, Sugared Water and The Fiddlehead. Her chapbook, Distributaries was published in 2016 by Frog Hollow Press.

Her first full-length collection, Were There Gazelle, is forthcoming from Pedlar Press in Spring 2020