Ruth Thompson

Ruth Thompson

Ruth Thompson is the author of Woman With Crows (2013) and Here Along Cazenovia Creek (2011). Jendi Reiter called Woman With Crows “an antidote to fear.” Read an interview about the book here. Ruth’s poems have won the New Millennium Writings, Harpur Palate, and other prizes. They were choreographed and performed by the great Japanese dancer Shizuno Nasu. In January 2015 Ruth will again collaborate with Shizuno in a performance of poetry, dance, and music. Her new work continues to celebrate joy within the dissolutions of aging. Oracle poems channel the voices of animals and birds. Recent poems are in Tupelo Quarterly and Poetry Flash. Ruth teaches writing and body-based meditation. She also runs Saddle Road Press, a small literary press in Hawai’i. She has been an English professor, an editor, a librarian, and a college administrator. She has a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Indiana. www.ruththompson.net  Consultant