David Ly is the author of Mythical Man (2020) and Dream of Me as Water (2022), both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press, and short-listed for the 2021 and 2023 ReLit Poetry Awards, respectively. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in publications such as Pan MacMillan’s HE, SHE, THEY, US: Queer Poems anthology (2024), Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, PRISM International, and The Ex-Puritan, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. While a full-time Rights and Permissions Assistant at UBC's Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, David is also the Poetry Editor at This Magazine, part of the Anstruther Press Editorial Collective, and a poetry mentor with ECW Press’ BIPOC Writers Mentorship Program.