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 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 written six poetry books - Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications: Sault Ste Marie,1997); and The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press,2000). Under God's Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press,2010), A Difficult Beauty is due out in Autumn 2011 (Wolsak & Wynn:Hamilton), Rising A Distant Dawn (BookLand Press:Toronto) is due out in the Spring of 2012 as well as Our Life Is Ceremony (Lummox Press: California)."--Kegedonce website. Additional keywords : Aboriginal peoples, First Nations, Metis poetry.