MFA Faculty Craft Seminar with Ruth L. Schwartz

The MFA program at Ashland University presents the summer residency's summer reading series. MFA program faculty member Ruth L. Schwartz (author of four collections of poetry) gives a craft seminar on Tuesday, August 3 at 1 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall, Schar College of Education. This event is free and open to the public.

Ruth L. Schwartz

Ruth L. Schwartz, poetry, is the author of four books of poems, each the winner of a national award: Dear Good Naked Morning (Autumn House Press, 2005), selected by Alicia Ostriker for the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize; Edgewater (HarperCollins, 2002), a National Poetry Series winner chosen by Jane Hirshfield; Singular Bodies (Anhinga Press, 2001), recipient of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; and Accordion Breathing and Dancing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), winner of the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Competition. Ruth is also the author of a memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story (Michigan State University Press, 2004), and her creative nonfiction has appeared in the Utne Reader, The Sun, and numerous anthologies.

For more information about the MFA program and the summer residency reading series, visit http://www.ashland.edu/graduate/mfa