Dave Paddon was born and raised in Northwest River, Labrador. He is a crowd favourite at storytelling and ballad-singing events in St. Johns, has performed at festivals and concerts across the island and on the mainland, and as a guide and storyteller for Adventure Canada cruises to the North. Dave has written numerous recitations; five of them The Card Game, Berries, The 12, Not a Word of a Lie, and The Christmas Turr have been published by Running the Goat as letterpress-printed chapbooks. Ralph, Flying Hound, his first book for children, was published in October 2016, and was included in the TD Summer Reading Club's Top 10 Recommended Reads (2017). A collection of thirteen of his recitations, Half the Lies You Tell Are Not True was published in the spring of 2018. A former commercial pilot, Dave divides his time between St. Johns and English Harbour.
