Ruth L. Schwartz
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Education
She graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University; an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan; and, a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the University of Integrative Learning.
Career
Her most recent poetry collection is Miraculum (Autumn House Press, 2012.) She is also the author of Soul on Earth: A Guide To Living & Loving Your Human Life (Six Directions Press, 2012) and Conscious Lesbian Dating & Love (Six Directions Press, 2015), as well as a memoir, Death In Reverse: A Love Story (Michigan State University Press, 2003.)
She is the founder and director of the Conscious Girlfriend Academy, an international online academy and community helping lesbians date wisely and love well.
She has taught at Cleveland State University, Goddard College, Mills College, California State University-Fresno, California College of the Arts. She teaches at Ashland University,[1] and offers workshops and one-on-one mentoring on the theme of The Writer As Shaman nationwide.[2][3] She lives in Oakland, California.[4][5]
Personal life
The San Francisco Bay Area has been Schwartz's chosen home since 1985; she has also traveled extensively in Latin America, and speaks fluent Spanish.
Awards
- NEA Fellowship[6]
- Ohio Arts Council Fellowship
- Astraea Foundation Fellowship
- two Nimrod/Neruda awards
- 2000 Chelsea Magazine Editor's awards
- a Reader's Choice award from Prairie Schooner
- New Letters Literary Award
- Randall Jarrell Award from the North Carolina Writer's Network
- Sue Saniel Elkin award from Kalliope Magazine
- AWP award
- 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry[7]
- 2001 National Poetry Series, for Edgewater
- 2005 Autumn House Press Prize for Dear Good Naked Morning
Published works
Full-length poetry collections
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Anthology publications
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References
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External links
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- The Writer as Shaman
- ""Ruth Schwartz", The Writer's Almanac
- "Fetch"; "Important Thing"; "In India", Poetry Magazine
- "Can Pigeons be Heros?", The Marlboro Review
- "Tangerine", Poetry Foundation
- "To Look and Look and Look", Ruth L. Schwartz interviewed by Stacey Waite, March 2003
- "Gravity", Kalliope, a journal of women's art and literature
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- Wesleyan University alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
- Poets from New York (state)
- Cleveland State University faculty
- Goddard College faculty
- Mills College faculty
- California State University, Fresno faculty
- California College of the Arts faculty
- Ashland University faculty
- People from Geneva, New York
- American women poets
- 21st-century American poets
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women writers