Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, and essayist.

Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, with the publication of The Dainty Monsters, followed by the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid in 1970.

His novel The English Patient (1992), which was adapted into a film in 1996, won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize.

Ondaatje has been committed to fostering new Canadian writing through his two-decade commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990). His editorial credits include the journal Brick and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.