David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Aboriginal roots - his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian.After receiving his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. David studied creative writing at the En'owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He has also studied at The University of Victoria Creative Writing Program. He has published six poetry books - Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications: Sault Ste Marie, 1997); and The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press:Wiarton: ON 2000). Under God's Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press: Wiarton, ON 2010), A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn: Hamilton, ON 2011), Rising With A Distant Dawn (BookLand Press:Toronto, ON 2011) as well as Chant Terra Indigenia (BookLand Press:Toronto, ON) due out in 2013.. David is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, The Ontario Poetry Society, as well as a member of The Writer's Union Of Canada.David won the 3rd annual PoetryNOW Battle of the Bards in 2011.David recently read at the IFOA in Toronto & Barrie as well as Ottawa Writer's Festival.David's poetry has appeared in a 140 publications in England, Australia, Germany, Austria, Turkey, India, New Zealand, Scotland, Venezuela, Sweden, Romania and the USA. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.