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Jay Ritchie

Jay Ritchie is a writer, editor, teacher, and English PhD candidate at McGill University. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the author of two poetry collections, Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024) and Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie (Coach House Books, 2017). He has taught creative writing at UMass and Bishop’s University. His poetry has been featured in Maisonneuve, SAND, EVENT, on CBC Radio One, and at the PHI Centre, and he performs expanded poetry readings using portable cassette players and analogue field recordings. 

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Books written by Jay Ritchie