Ruth Williams is the author of Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, jubilat, Pleiades and Third Coast among others. She has also published creative nonfiction in DIAGRAM and South Loop Review as well as scholarly work on women's writing and feminism in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, and College Literature. Ruth holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati; currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at William Jewell College.