{"id":18687,"date":"2019-06-23T20:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/?post_type=stories&p=18687"},"modified":"2023-07-07T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:18:28","slug":"alumni-bio-ruth-williams","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/cahss\/news\/alumni-bio-ruth-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Williams<\/strong> is the author of Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), a full-length collection of poetry, as well as two poetry chapbooks,\u00a0 Nursewfiery (Jacar Press, 2019) and Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>, jubilat<\/em>, Pleiades<\/em>, and Third Coast<\/em> among others. She has also published creative nonfiction in Crab Orchard Review<\/em>, DIAGRAM<\/em>, and Entropy<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

Ruth’s scholarly work on women’s writing\u00a0 and feminism appears in Tulsa Studies in Women\u2019s Literature<\/em>, The Journal of Popular Culture<\/em>,\u00a0 Michigan Feminist Studies<\/em>, College Literature<\/em>, and The Writer’s Chronicle<\/em>.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Ruth holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Eastern Washington University; 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.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Ruth had to say about Eastern’s MFA program:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt EWU, I learned how to work, really work, on my writing. In using the word \u2018work,\u2019 this isn\u2019t 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\u2019s power. Additionally, working on Willow Springs and at EWU Press gave me the experience of viewing creative writing \u2018from the other side,\u2019 learning how editors make their selections, an awareness that has certainly helped me as I continue to pursue publication. Now that I\u2019m a teacher of creative writing, I can see ways my own workshops have been shaped by my teachers and peers at EWU, so in that sense, the \u2018work\u2019 of my time in the MFA program goes on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out more of her work at www.ruthcwilliams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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