Ruth Smith’s chapbook, The Art Of Unpicking, is published by Lapwing Publications, Belfast, ISBN 978-1-9108557-3-7 (December 2017).
 
Ruth is a former secondary school teacher. She is married with three children and three grandchildren and lives in Bromley, Kent. She attends workshops at The Poetry School and is a member of the Torriano Group. In March 2016 she became President of the Shortlands Poetry Circle which meets regularly at The Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley.
 
Ruth’s poems have been widely published in magazines and poems have appeared in Agenda, The Rialto, Magma, The Interpreter’s House, Obsessed With Pipework. Smiths Knoll, Orbis, Envoi, Faber First Pressings and several others.
 
Ruth has won prizes in the following competitions: Thetford and Wymondham, Ver Poets, Ware, New Forest, Second Light, Kickstart (Salisbury), Northampton, Middlesex, The Interpreter’s House, Norwich, Poetry Life, Chiltern Writers, Arun, Castle Poets Rochester and the Ripley Poetry Association. She also had two poems published on the BBC website.
 
She won 1st. Prize in the London Writers’ Competition (1996) and in the Wells Competition (2002) She also had a poem nominated for the Pushcart Prize in the USA.
 
Ruth’s poems are published in the following anthologies:
 
Get Me Out Of Here!, Grey Hen Press, 2011
Outlook Variable, Grey Hen Press, 2014
The Price Of Gold, Grey Hen Press, 2012
Extraordinary Forms, Grey Hen Press, 2016
Not Only The Dark, World Aid, 2011
Soul Feathers, Indigo Dreams, 2011
Her Wings Of Glass, Second Light Publications, 2014
Parents, Second Light/Enitharmon Press, 2000
Making Worlds, Headland/Second Light, 2003
In The Company Of Poets, Hearing Eye, 2003
Entering The Tapestry, The Poetry School, 2004