Leonie Couper was raised in Martinborough in the Wairarapa District. She and her husband Ian have two adult children and three grand-daughters all of whom have been coerced and cajoled into listening to, editing or proofreading a proliferation of written work, some of which occasionally gets published.
New Zealand Society of Authors in the Bay of Plenty. , Leonie Couper. Pae Korokī, accessed 29/05/2023, https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/5515