David Manicom


David Alton Manicom is a Canadian diplomat, civil servant, poet, and novelist.

Biography

Manicom was born in Ingersoll, Ontario and lived there until he attended the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal. He has also lived in Aylmer, Quebec, Moscow, Islamabad, Beijing, Geneva, and New Delhi.
He has contributed to numerous publications, including Rubicon, AWOL, Words Apart and Quarry. Manicom's The Burning Eaves was a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Awards for English Language Poetry, while "Progeny of Ghosts" won the Quebec Writer's Federation prize for non-fiction and was short-listed for the National Writer's Trust Viacom award for non-fiction.
He currently serves as the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.