INGRID RUTHIG, writer, poet, editor, 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/residency 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 Signal Editions/Véhicule Press.
“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
For more than 25 years, Ingrid’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. As well as the titles noted above, her publishing credits also include the books The Essential Anne Wilkinson (Porcupine’s Quill), Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions), work in 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 other publications.
Until 2007, she was a co-editor and co-publisher of the Canadian literary journal Lichen (Arts & Letters Preview), and later was an associate editor of Northern Poetry Review.
“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, 2003 Governor General’s Award winner
Ingrid’s award-winning artworks, ‘textworks’ which combine word and image, text and textile, are held in various collections. They have also appeared online, on book covers, and been exhibited at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Whitby Station Gallery where her extensive project Re|Visions was first shown, the Aurora Cultural Centre, 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 New York City’s former Brooklyn Art Library.
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2019 Ontario Arts Council Grant
2018 Hawthornden International Writers’ Retreat Fellowship/Residency (Scotland)
2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (for This Being), League of Canadian Poets
2015 Ontario Arts Council Grant
2010 Writers’ Community of Durham Region Grant
2006 Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize (UK), third prize (for “Lily”)
2005 Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Competition, first prize for a collection of poems
2004-2007 Ontario Arts Council Grants
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