Supply Chain Canada
President & CEO
Led a national professional organization and carried public responsibility for its direction.
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About R. D. Fletcher
A writer formed by two working lives.
I’m a Canadian poet, essayist and speculative fiction writer whose poetry books range from the seven-volume Imperfect Offerings collection, three-volume REALMS series, Anthropocene and FRONTIERS, to essays on AI and the human condition and novellas on synthetic minds and artificial futures.
The machinery is questioned from a particular life and an accumulating body of work.
I write from the meeting point of literary work and corporate experience, examining how rapidly evolving technology affects human relationships and judgement.
My seven-volume Imperfect Offerings series gathers poetry written from my teen years to present, moving from remembered relationships with loved ones and friends to the cyber world and screen life. My REALMS trilogy maps contemporary life from algorithmic spectacle and data religion to technological dehumanization and the human aftermath. In Anthropocene I confront the climate crisis, while in FRONTIERS and RECKONING I continue the cyber journey through poetry and argument. In my speculative fiction novellas, I imagine worlds of synthetic minds and artificial futures.
My literary work is shaped by a career spent leading and advising organizations whose authority depends on public trust. This experience gives my writing a perspective on AI at both a human and institutional scale.
My poetry books and essays return to a question that has grown more urgent over time: what are people becoming as machines increasingly permeate human life?
Selected experience
The institutional experience behind the writing.
Decades in organizational leadership sharpened my scrutiny of public authority and the stories institutions tell about themselves.
CMA Canada
Vice-President, Public Affairs & Communications
Directed national communications and professional advocacy.
Professional Engineers Ontario
Director, Communications
Worked where regulatory communication meets public trust.
Ontario Medical Association
Director, Public Affairs
Communicated policy within the public life of medicine.
Recurring questions
What the work keeps returning to.
Artificial intelligenceConsciousnessAuthorshipMemoryRecursionMedia theoryGeopoliticsLiterature & cultureMortalityTechnological powerWhat remains human
Correspondence