Ronald Keith Pretty AM (16 October 1940 – 30 June 2023) was an Australian poet, editor, publisher and teacher.

For a twenty-year period he ran Five Islands Press, publishing some 230 books of poetry[2] and mentored many Australian poets.

He edited the magazines Scarp: New Arts and Writing and Blue Dog: Australian Poetry for a number of years.

He was based at the University of Melbourne from 2003 to 2007 where he taught creative writing and was managing editor of Blue Dog: Australian Poetry from 2002 to 2007.

[1][8] In 2012, he spent six months at the Whiting Studio in Rome, having been awarded a residency by the Australia Council for the Arts.