David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. David received his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. He also studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. David has written four previous poetry books: Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications, 1997), The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press, 2000), Under God’s Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press, 2010), and A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn, 2011). His fifth book of poetry, Rising With A Distant Dawn, was published by BookLand Press in 2012.