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Ruth E. Walker

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Born

in Toronto, Canada

Website

http://ruthewalker.ca/

Twitter

imruthwalker

Genre

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Fairy tale and myth; William Shakespeare; Margaret Laurence; the lands ...more

Member Since

April 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/ruthewalker

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The very first submission by Ruth E. Walker won "Canadian Living" magazine's short story contest in 1998. Since then, she's went on to even more success with poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction published in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

Her first novel "Living Underground" was published by Seraphim Editions in September 2012 and went into second printing in January 2013. Author Rabindranath Maharaj ("The Amazing Absorbing Boy") called it "an impressive debut" and author Barbara Lambert ("The Whirling Girl") says "'Living Underground' is an astonishing book."

An earlier version of "Living Underground" was a semi-finalist in the Chapters/Robertson Davies ms competition.

Ruth is a partner in Writescape with writer Gwynn Scheltema, offe ...more

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Ruth E. Walker's Blog

Circling Cancer

What if you knew the clock was clicking so loudly that you could actually hear it. My writer-colleague Annette McLeod must make a decision no parent would choose to be burdened with. Honest, clear and undeniable, she faces that decision in a most human way.

Inkstroke's Blog

Cancer is like a black hole. It devours friends and family and leaves broken survivors in its wake. Survivors wh

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Average rating: 4.12 · 92 ratings · 25 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Living Underground 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing But Red: The Anthology Inspired by the Death of Du'a Khalil by Skyla Dawn Cameron (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joss Whedon (Contributor), Leigh Dragoon (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars