Robin Richardson is a Canadian poet and essayist. Her latest collection, Sit How You Want, won the Trillium Book Award and ReLit Award and works from the collection were shortlisted for the CBC and Walrus Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in Salon, Hazlitt, Poetry Magazine, Washington Square Review, Tin House and others. She is a Macdowell and Doris McCarthy Fellow and holds an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She was also the founding editor of Minola Review. 

TRILLIUM AWARD JURY COMMENTS

“The poems in Robin Richardson’s Sit How You Want are hot and cool, exposed and demure, and full of ferocity and sass. The speaker of these poems uses a keen eye, a biting wit, and and musical ear to record and transcend the obstacles life has placed around her. The narrator seems to suggest that is not enough to confront trauma, grief, and the threat of sexual violence in poetry, but that this art form can be masterfully used to flaunt scars, invite confrontation, and dive deep into the rich sensuality of existence. The speaker’s voice emerges as if from a chrysalis, but these sharp-formed works do not form a butterfly, but instead a tender scorpion.”