Richard-Yves Sitoski is a poet, playwright and songwriter living in Owen Sound, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Treaty 45 ½). He was the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound. 

His poems and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Arc, The Fiddlehead, PRISM, Prairie Fire, Train, CAROUSEL, The Antigonish Review, QWERTY, Queen’s Quarterly, the Maynard, Watch Your Head, The Windsor Review, Pinhole Poetry, the League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause, and elsewhere.  

His collection A Current Through the Flesh is forthcoming from Ronsdale Press.