Ruth L. Schwartz (born 1962

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) is an American poet, memoirist, personal growth author and teacher.

Education

She graduated with a B.A. from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the Methodi ...

; an M.F.A. from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

; 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 Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in oper ...

Goddard College Goddard College was a Private college, private college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle. The college offered undergraduate and graduate degree programs. With predecessor ins ...

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...

, California State University-Fresno,

California College of the Arts The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996, it opened a second campus in ...

. She teaches at

Ashland University Ashland University is a private university in Ashland, Ohio, United States. The university consists of a main campus and several off-campus centers throughout central and northern Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern U ...

, and offers workshops and one-on-one mentoring on the theme of The Writer As Shaman nationwide. She lives in

Oakland, California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

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 * 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'' *

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award * 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry * 2001

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and c ...

, for ''Edgewater'' * 2005

Autumn House Press Autumn House Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. History Autumn House Press was founded in 1998 by Michael Simms when prominent American publishers, driven by econo ...

Prize for Dear Good Naked Morning

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

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Anthology publications

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References

External links

The Writer as Shaman

""Ruth Schwartz", ''The Writer's Almanac''

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