Jacqueline Bourque grew up along the ocean shores of New Brunswick. She spent the better part of her career in Ottawa working as a communicator in the public sector. Her poetry has been featured in a number of anthologies and journals, including The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, and The Dalhousie Review. In 2019, she released a chapbook titled The Dune as Bookmark, published by Anstruther Press.