Author Bio

Ruth’s books of poems are: Dear Good Naked Morning, selected by Alicia Ostriker as the winner of the 2004 Autumn House Press Competition (Autumn House Press, 2005); Edgewater, selected by Jane Hirshfield as a 2001 National Poetry Series winner (HarperCollins, 2002); Singular Bodies (Anhinga Press, 2001), winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; and Accordion Breathing and Dancing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), winner of the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Award. A memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story, was published by Michigan State University Press in 2004. Ruth has won over a dozen national literary prizes, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Astraea Foundation.

For more information about Ruth's literary career and accomplishments, please visit her author website, www.RuthSchwartz.com.