[the poetry billboard] - the poet : Ruth Schuler

Ruth Schuler


Ruth Wildes Schuler was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in the United States. She received a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She has had over 1000 poems, short stories, literary articles and book reviews published in anthologies and small press magazines in twenty two countries around the world and has had work translated into fifteen languages. For eleven years, she edited an international literary magazine, Prophetic Voices. She has edited a number of anthologies for other presses, including a collection of Native American poetry for Willfion Publishers in Scotland. She has won numerous first and grand prizes in poetry and has had poems and short stories published in two textbooks published by the American Association of University Women. She is listed in Poets and Writers, Inc., World Whose Who Of Women and Contemporary Authors and Poets.

On March 23rd, she will be attending and speaking at the International Poetry Festival at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

"At The Vortex's Edge" was First prize Winner in the National Poetry Contest of the Poets of The Vineyard Contest 2002



Salemruthwildes@comcast.net



POEMS

At The Vortex's Edge