Ruth Danon

Ruth Danon (she/her) is the author of Turn Up the Heat (Nirala Series, 2023), Word Has It (Nirala Series 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2015), Triangulation from a Known Point (North Star Line, 1990), the chapbook Living with the Fireman (Ziesing Brothers, 1980), and the book of literary criticism Work in the English Novel (Croom-Helm, 1985), reissued by Routledge in 2021.

Her poetry has been published in several anthologies, including Best American Poetry (2002), Eternal Snow (Nirala, 2017), Resist Much / Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press, 2019), CAPS 20 Anthology (CAPS Press, 2019), Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press, 2022), and the Poetry Is Bread Anthology (Nirala, 2023). Her poetry and prose have been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Post Road, Versal, BOMB, the Paris Review, Fence, the Boston Review, 3rd bed, 2 Horatio, Barrow Street, and other publications.

Danon has been a fellow at Ragdale, Yaddo, the Ora Lerman Trust, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. For 23 years, she taught in the creative and expository writing programs for the School of Professional Studies at New York University and as founding director of their Summer Intensive Creative Writing Workshop. She is the founder of LIVE WRITING: A Project for the Reading, Writing, and Performance of Poetry, which has been operating since 2018.