B.A. English ’09, M.A. Canadian Studies ’12
Ben Ladouceur is the author of two poetry collections. The first one, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best debut collection in Canada. The second one, Mad Long Emotion, was selected as a CBC 2019 Book of the Year. He is also the author of nine chapbooks, three of which came out through Carleton University’s In/Words Magazine and Press.
In 2018, he received the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBT writers. In 2019, he was awarded the National Magazine Award for Poetry, and his short fiction was featured in the Journey Prize Anthology and awarded the Thomas Morton Prize.
He has completed a three-month residency at the Al Purdy A-Frame in Ameliasburgh, ON, and been a featured reader at events and festivals across Canada and the United States. He has been a member of the editorial boards of In/Words Magazine and Arc Poetry Magazine, and has served as a peer assessor/juror for the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Ottawa, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the League of Canadian Poets. He lives in Ottawa.