Ruth R. Pierson

photo by Pauline Silberman

“After the Flower Shower" , Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, the International Feminist Perspectives:  Women and Violence Special Issue One, p. 3, 2003.

Ruth lives in Toronto.  She turned from an academic life to poetry around 1993. Her poems have appeared in a large number of well-known literary magazines. On the poetry shortlist of This Magazine's 2001 Great Canadian Literary Hunt, she won second prize in the Word: Toronto's Literary Calendar Poetry Contest of 2001. Where No Window Was is her first book of poems.