Jay Ritchie was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. He is the author of the poetry chapbook How to Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying on the Inside (Metatron, 2014) and the short story collection Something You Were, Might Have Been, or Have Come to Represent (Insomniac, 2014). In 2012 he was shortlisted for the LitPop Award, and he received a fellowship to Summer Literary Seminars Lithuania in 2014. He has been Assistant Editor for Metatron Press, an independent publisher and home of the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors, since 2015. This is his first full-length book of poems.