David O'Meara

David O’Meara is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Masses On Radar (Coach House Books, 2021). His play, Disaster, was nominated for four Rideau Awards. He has been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Prize, the K. M. Hunter Award, the Trillium Book Award, a National Magazine Award, and is the winner of the Ottawa Book Award and a four-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Prize. He was the founding Artistic Director for VERSeFest (Canada’s International Poetry Festival) and was a jurist for the 2012 Griffin International Poetry Prize. David has taught workshops in high schools and universities, was an instructor at the Banff Centre for the Arts and served as Poet-in-Residence for Arc Poetry Magazine. He has read widely at numerous venues, including the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and festivals in Canada, Scotland, the Netherlands, Cambodia, and Ireland. In 2016 he was awarded the Ottawa Arts Council Mid-Career Artist Award. He lives in Ottawa, Canada. His novel, Chandelier, is published by Nightwood Editions (2024).