Ryan Fitzpatrick is the author of five books of poetry, including the forthcoming No Depression in Heaven (Talonbooks, 2025) and the recent Sunny Ways (Invisible, 2023). Their first non-fiction book Ace Theory, a book-length essay in fragments about asexuality, will be published by Book*Hug Press in 2026. They are the publisher of the online-based and poetry-focused Model Press. They are the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. They’ve previously lived in Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto.

You can find them online at ryanfitzpatrick.ca.

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