Biography

Born in Barbados, Robin A. Gittens immigrated to Canada in 2003, at the age of twenty, to study Information Technology Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. He later spent more than fifteen years in Product Management and UX Design, partnering with global teams to shape digital experiences with clarity, empathy, and purpose.

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In his early forties, after a series of life-changing events, Robin began to feel the distance between his career path and the voice he had long kept hidden. He returned to poetry—an art he had practiced privately since adolescence—as a way to confront lived experiences of stigma, shame, grief, heritage, and survival with albinism.

Since entering the University of Toronto’s Creative Writing program in 2022, Robin has continued to develop a body of work rooted in identity, trauma, Gothic horror, and spiritual reclamation. His background in UX still shapes his creative practice—not as corporate utility, but as a devotion to structure, emotional truth, and candid storytelling.

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Robin is currently building PoetiKit, a private, AI-supported digital residency that helps poets write, research, refine, and shape their artistry across different stages of their writing path.

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Though the forest is lovely, dark and deep, he has promises to keep; and many miles to go before he sleeps…