Blaine Marchand

Blaine Marchand (born 1949 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian writer. Marchand has published poetry, non-fiction and a novel.

A longtime program manager with the Canadian International Development Agency, some of his writing has been inspired by his international travels with the organization. In 2012 he was guest editor of an issue of the Canadian poetry magazine Vallum dedicated to poets from Pakistan.

From 1992 to 1994 he was president of the League of Canadian Poets. He was also a co-founder of the Ottawa Independent Writers, the Ottawa Valley Book Festival and the Canadian Review, and a regular columnist for Ottawa's LGBT newspaper Capital Xtra!.

Openly gay, he lives in Ottawa.

Awards

 * 1971 - Georgia May Cook Sonnet Award
 * 1987 - Anthos Poetry Prize
 * 1990 - The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, second prize
 * 1992 - Archibald Lampman Award

Anthologies

 * Capital Poets: An Ottawa Anthology. (Ouroboros, 1989).
 * Capital Poets: An Ottawa Anthology. (Ouroboros, 1989).