David Groulx was raised in the mining community of Elliot Lake in northern Ontario. He is proud of hisNative roots – his mother is Ojibwa and his father is French Canadian. David received his B.A. degree from Lakehead University, where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. He has previously published seven poetry books and his poems have appeared in over one hundred periodicals in Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and the USA. He currently lives near Ottawa, Ontario.