Thomas Leduc was Poet Laureate of Sudbury, Ontario, 2014-16 and the President of the Sudbury Writers' Guild from 2017-2021. His poems and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. In 2019 his first collection of poetry, Slagflower Poems Unearthed From A Mining Town (Latitude 46). He lives in Sudbury, Ontario.