Ruth Danon

Teaches at Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan

Ruth Danon's most recent book, Word Has It, was published by Nirala Series in March, 2018. She is also the author of Limitless Tiny Boat (2015, BlazeVOX), and much earlier, Triangulation From A Known Point and Living With The Fireman (a chapbook). Her poetry and prose have appeared in many publications in the US and abroad, including Fence, BOMB, The Paris Review, Barrow Street, Crayon, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2002 (selected by Robert Creeley), Eternal Snow (2018), and Resist Much, Obey Little (2018.) She graduated from Bard College and received her Ph.D from the University of Connecticut. For 23 years she taught in the Creative Writing Program she designed and directed for NYU's McGhee Division, the (then) undergraduate college for adult students. That program was dissolved in May 2017 and now Ruth Danon teaches in the Hudson Valley, where she lives, and in New York City. She is a member of the New York Writers Workshop and the Urban Range Poetry Collective