INGRID RUTHIG, writer, poet, visual artist, and former practising architect, is the author of several books, including This Being, winner of the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.
She has also published the poem sequence Slipstream as an artist’s bookwork, the chapbook Synesthete II, The Essential Elizabeth Brewster: poems, and David Helwig: Essays on His Work, among other volumes.*
The recipient of a fellowship at the Hawthornden International Writers Retreat in Scotland, as well as a Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, she lives on the north shore of Lake Ontario. A new book of her poetry is forthcoming from Véhicule Press.
“Ingrid Ruthig is a protean artist, a poet, writer, editor, recovering architect (now dealing in architexts), hybrid artist, text artist … a hungry spirit who breaks forms and recombines them, who is always trying a little something new.” — Douglas Glover, winner of the 2003 Governor General’s Award
“As intently as Ruthig observes, it’s perhaps her listening — to sounds and silences alike — that inspires some of her poems’ finest touches.” — Arc Poetry Magazine
*Since 2000, Ruthig’s poetry, fiction, interviews, book reviews, essays, and work as an editor and designer have appeared across Canada, as well as in the UK, Australia, US, and in translation in Europe, with publication credits including The Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books), Resisting Canada (Véhicule Press), Am, Be: The Poetry of Wayne Clifford (Frog Hollow Press), Room to Room (ARKITEXWERKS), CNQ, Maisonneuve, Quill & Quire, Books in Canada, and numerous others, as well as the volumes The Essential Anne Wilkinson (Porcupine’s Quill), Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions), and the books mentioned in the intro biography above.
She co-edited and co-published the Canadian literary journal Lichen (Arts & Letters Preview) until 2007, and later was an associate editor of Northern Poetry Review.
Her award-winning textworks (a fusion of word & image, text & textile, held in various collections) have appeared online, on book covers, and been exhibited in the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Whitby Station Gallery (where her extensive project Re|Visions was first shown), and other public spaces. Her artist’s books are housed at Library and Archives Canada, Glasgow Women’s Library in Scotland, the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, and at one time in New York’s former Brooklyn Art Library.
She is the recipient of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, as well as a Hawthornden Fellowship, a Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Competition, and several grants from the Ontario Arts Council.
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