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 is a winner of the Ottawa Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Prize, is the director of The Plan 99 Reading Series, was the founding Artistic Director for VERSeFest (Canada’s International Poetry Festival), and was a jurist for the 2012 Griffin International Poetry Prize.  In 2016 he was awarded the Ottawa Arts Council Mid-Career Artist Award. His debut novel, Chandelier, is forthcoming in autumn 2024.