Ronna Bloom is a Toronto-based poet and educator and the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In a Riptide (Brick Books, 2025). Her work has been broadcast on CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and translated into Bangla and Chinese. Ronna has led initiatives to bring poetry into health care settings, specifically developing the Poet-in-Residence program at Sinai Health.

Her work has appeared several times in Best Canadian Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her book of selected poems A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom was edited by Phil Hall and published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2023. She has expertise in poetry writing and poetry workshop facilitation in healthcare.