David O'Meara
David O’Meara was born in Pembroke, Ontario. He is the author of three collections of poetry, and a play, Disaster. His most recent book is Noble Gas, Penny Black (Brick Books, 2008). He has been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Re-Lit Prize, the Trillium Prize, a National Magazine Award, four Rideau Awards (theatre), and was twice-winner of the Archibald Lampman Award. He is director of the renowned Plan 99 Reading Series, and a founding director of VerseFest, Canada’s International Poetry Festival.
