Jay Ritchie is a poet, critic, and teacher. His most recent book Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024) was a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His creative and critical work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Jacket2, Maisonneuve, SAND, The Fiddlehead, as part of a digital installation at the PHI Centre, and elsewhere.