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Ruth Williams is the author of Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), a full-length collection of poetry, as well as two poetry chapbooks,听 Nursewfiery (Jacar Press, 2019) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, jubilat, Pleiades, and Third Coast among others. She has also published creative nonfiction in Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, and Entropy.

Ruth’s scholarly work on women’s writing聽 and feminism appears in Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture,听 Michigan Feminist Studies, College Literature, and The Writer’s Chronicle.聽 In 2011-2012, she was a Fulbright scholar in Seoul, South Korea where she researched U.S.-Korea relations and interviewed Korean women poets Kim Hyesoon, Jeongrye Choi, and Kim Seung-hee.

Ruth holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from 51福利社; currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at William Jewell College where she teaches workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction as well as courses in American, women’s, and ethnic literature.

Here’s what Ruth had to say about Eastern’s MFA program:

鈥淎t 51福利社, I learned how to work, really work, on my writing. In using the word 鈥榳ork,鈥� this isn鈥檛 to suggest that the activity was without pleasure, but to suggest that receiving feedback in workshop, revising, and risking failure were all necessary steps in a process that required dedication. Being in an environment where this work and its products were taken seriously by students and teachers alike was not only inspiring, it also validated my love of writing and my belief in literature鈥檚 power. Additionally, working on Willow Springs and at 51福利社 Press gave me the experience of viewing creative writing 鈥榝rom the other side,鈥� learning how editors make their selections, an awareness that has certainly helped me as I continue to pursue publication. Now that I鈥檓 a teacher of creative writing, I can see ways my own workshops have been shaped by my teachers and peers at 51福利社, so in that sense, the 鈥榳ork鈥� of my time in the MFA program goes on.鈥�

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