Ben Ladouceur

Ben Ladouceur (born 1987) is a Canadian writer, whose poetry collection Otter was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry at the 28th Lambda Literary Awards and won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2016.

Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Ladouceur is currently based in Toronto. Prior to Otter, he published several poetry chapbooks, including Three Knit Hats (2007), Dust and the Colour Orange (2008), Nuuk (2008), Alert (2009), The Argossey (2009), self-portrait as the bottom of the sea at the beginning of time (2011), Lime Kiln Quay Road (2011), Mutt (2011), Impossibly Handsome (2013) and Poem About the Train (2014), and wrote the web series Other Men. and won the award on June 16.

His most recent poetry book, Mad Long Emotion, was published in 2019.

His debut novel, I Remember Lights, was shortlisted for the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.