David Helwig CM (April 5, 1938 – October 16, 2018) was a Canadian editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.
When he was ten years old, his family moved to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father ran a small business repairing and refinishing furniture and buying and selling antiques.
In 1971, he founded and was long-time editor of the Best Canadian Stories anthology series for Oberon Press.
In 2007, he received the Matt Cohen Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada in honor of his lifetime contribution to Canadian literature.
On January 23, 2008, he was appointed Prince Edward Island's third Poet Laureate[2] and on July 1, 2009 he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.