Bonnie Kosanke has an MS with extensive experience conducting and directing research, and as a computer scientist. She is the originator and past publisher of the Journal of Pyrotechnics, a technical journal on pyrotechnics.

Historically, the Kosankes commercially manufactured fireworks and performed fireworks displays. More recently they operated a pyrotechnic research facility, specializing in making physical measurements on fireworks and pyrotechnic items. They lectured extensively in several countries on pyrotechnic chemistry and firework display safety and have written approximately 350 articles and papers on fireworks, pyrotechnics, and explosives. In concert with contributing pyrotechnicians around the world, they published Pyrotechnic Chemistry and The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics and Related Subjects. Their legacy of published works is available for free download from www.jpyro.co.uk.