Tanya Adèle Koehnke earned her MA in English from York University. Tanya taught English at several colleges and universities in Toronto. Tanya also has a background in arts journalism. Tanya’s poems appear in The Ekphrastic Review; The Ekphrastic World Anthology 2020; Framed & Familiar: 101 Portraits: An International Anthology of Poetry and Photography; Hamilton Arts & Letters’ “The Canadian Chapbook” issue; Canadian Woman Studies; Poets & Painters; The Canvas; Big Art Book; tinted memories and Forever Soup (Third Iris Zine); Sleet Magazine; Foreplay: An Anthology of Word Sonnets; Tea-Ku: Poems About Tea; Bards Against Hunger: 10th Anniversary Anthology; Grid Poems: A Guide and Workbook; Alchemy and Miracles: Nature Woven Into Words; and other publications. Tanya’s poems also appear in online galleries. Tanya has received several awards for her poetry via annual juried exhibitions.