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Quickwater Oracles is a 2022 Montaigne Medal Winner and Finalist
for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize!

Losing everything and then returning to life brought me a great gift; an extraordinary experience of joy in the physical world.

Awards

Ruth’s work has won New Millennium Writings, Harpur Palate, Chautauqua, Tupelo Quarterly, and other national awards, and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Woman with Crows was a finalist for the A Room of Her Own (AROHO) Foundation’s “To The Lighthouse” Prize. Quickwater Oracles is a 2022 Montaigne Medal Winner and Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize.

Readings & Teachings

Past classes have included yoga, body-based meditation, and writing workshops for all levels (sometimes mixing all three and incorporating nature/various spiritual traditions). Check back soon, as sessions and Poetry Readings may return online via Zoom!

Interviews

Some favorites that provide insight to the writing process and accompanying themes within these poems:

My Writing Process
Q&A for TCJWW
Letting It Go
New News Now

“The sensual is what brought
me home.”

She is a woman writer for women writers; there is a clear sense of feminine community in her work that is as pragmatic as it is mythic.
Claire Farley
The California Journal of Women Writers
Woman with Crows is an antidote to fear.
Jendi Reiter
Author, Bullies In Love
If you are beyond midlife or love someone who is, Crazing is a gift of nurture.
Story Circle Network Book Reviews
July 8th, 2015
Sings with beauty, loss, and hope. Her poems boom and soar, full of movement and sensory experience caught in gorgeous, chewable language.
Sandra Hunter
Author, Losing Touch
These poems vibrate on the page with essential, powerful life-force, in language as playful and gorgeously-lit as it is sharply wise.
Jessamyn Smyth
Author, Kitsune
If this all sounds terribly sentimental and “uplifting”, don’t worry. She’s not a sweet, neutered old granny. There are fireworks here, and snakes, and “ooze shining and blooming and with sex in it.
Jendi Reiter
Author, Bullies In Love

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I know from my own experience that what you come to through the death of the self is a place where the light pours in.