D.G. Jones was born in Ontario in 1929. He has won the Governor General's Award three times (for poetry in 1977 and 1993, and for translation in 1993). His poetry has also won two QSPELL Awards and the A.J.M. Smith Award. Jones retired from teaching at the Université de Sherbrooke in 1994. He now lives in North Hatley, Quebec, where he continues as editorial advisor and translator for Ellipse magazine.