Distinguished American poet Ruth Danon’s fourth collection of poetry, Turn Up the Heat, was published
by Nirala Series in 2023. Her previous books are Word Has It (Nirala Series 2018), Limitless Tiny
Boat (BlazeVOX, 2015), Triangulation from a Known Point (North Star Line, 1990), a chapbook, Living
with the Fireman (Ziesing Brothers, 1980), and a book of literary criticism, Work in the English
Novel (Croom-Helm, 1985), which was reissued by Routledge in 2021. Her poetry has appeared in
several anthologies, including Eternal Snow (Nirala, 2017), Resist Much, Obey Little (Spuyten Duyvil,
2017) Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Isobar Press, 2019). CAPS 20 Anthology (CAPS
2020), Stronger than Fear: Poems of Compassion, Empowerment and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press,
2022), and is forthcoming in the Poetry is Bread Anthology (Nirala Publications, 2024) and the CAPS 25
Anthology. Her work was selected by Robert Creeley for Best American Poetry,2002. Her poetry and
prose have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Post
Road, Versal, Mead, BOMB, the Paris Review, Fence, the Boston Review, 3rd Bed, Crayon, 2Horatio,
Barrow Street, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. In September she will be a fellow at
the Desert Rat Residency in Palm Desert. She is the founder of Live Writing: A Project for the Reading,
Writing, and Performance of Poetry, which has been operating since 2018. She lives in Beacon, NY and
teaches through Live Writing and New York Writers Workshop.
