Ben Ladouceur is the author of nine chapbooks, including bpNichol Award nominee Lime Kiln Quay Road (above/ground press), and the collections Mad Long Emotion and Otter (Coach House Books), which was named a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize for best poetry debut in Canada. He has published poems in Poetry, The Awl, and The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, and short fiction in Maisonneuve, The Malahat Review, and Prairie Fire, among other publications. He was prose editor for Arc Poetry Magazine from 2015 to 2018, and he received the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers in 2018. He lives in Ottawa. [provided with the 2020 Archibald Lampman Award]