D.A. Lockhart is the author of multiple collections of poetry and short fiction. His most recent work includes Leaf Counter (Frontenac House, 2025) and Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). North of Middle Island (Kegedonce Press, 2023) was a finalist for the 2024 Ontario Trillium Book Award and 2024 Indiana Authors’ Award for Poetry. Bearmen Descend Upon Gimli was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Breaking Right was a finalist for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction and shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Author’s Awards in Fiction. His work has appeared widely throughout Turtle Island including Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and 2024, the Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, TriQuarterly, The Fiddlehead, ARC Poetry Magazine, and Belt. Along the way his work has garnered numerous Pushcart Prize nominations, National Magazine Award nominations, and Best of the Net nominations. He is a graduate of the Indiana University – Bloomington MFA in Creative Writing program where he held a Neal-Marshall Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing. He is pùkuwànkoamimëns of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Lockhart currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong where he is the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press.
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