Ruth E. Walker is a poet, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in various Canadian and international publications such as: Signal, Intangible Journal, River King Poetry Supplement (US), Rain Dog (UK), Canadian Children’s Literature, Canadian Living, The Toronto Sun, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, Oshawa/Whitby This Week, online at Iksperament and Regina Weese, and in the anthologies, Time of Trial: Beyond the Terror of 9/11, Oval Victory: Best of Canadian Poetry, Tea for 03, Signatures, and Open Window III, and is forthcoming in the anthology Leaving Footsteps through Black Moss Press and Cadenza (UK).

Ruth won the 1996 Canadian Living Short Story prize and the 1998 Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest. In 1999, she was a semi-finalist in the Chapters-Robertson Davies Competition; in 2001, she won the Ghost Story Competition at Trent University Writers and Readers Fair; in 2003, she received second place in the Larry Turner Award for Non-fiction.

Ruth has been a judge for national poetry contests and international fiction competitions. She has appeared on radio and television, and enjoys speaking to audiences from high school students to senior citizens.

A founding editor for lichen literary journal, Ruth is a past president of The Writers= Circle of Durham Region and helped to found Words in Whitby, an annual reading series. A writer and editor for the Ministry of Education, she is a popular facilitator of creative writing workshops and college-level courses, and maintains a freelance editing and writing service.

Ruth lives in Whitby, Ontario, with her husband and four children.

“...a clear winner,” Gregory Ward; “...the allusive quality of a Faulkner short story,” Andrew Pyper, judges of Writers and Readers Fair competition.

“...an extraordinarily tight little historical gem...hard to put down, impossible to shake from the mind,” Judith Robertson, judge, Larry Turner Award Non-fiction.

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