The ’short’ and the ‘long’ of it . . .
The Short:
Ingrid Ruthig is a writer, editor, visual artist, and architect living near Toronto. Her work has appeared across Canada and internationally in numerous publications such as The Malahat Review, Descant, The New Quarterly, Cordite, Magma, Grain, and most recently Ditch and Gloom Cupboard. In 2005 her poetry won a British Petra Kenney prize and the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival literary competition. Current projects include a collection of her poems, the haiku sequence + companion artwork Slipstream, the book Richard Outram – Essays on His Work (coming in 2010, Guernica Editions), and an extensive mixed-media series based on an in-progress manuscript.
The Long:
Ingrid Ruthig was born and raised in southwestern Ontario. Early studies in the arts eventually led her to earn a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Toronto in the 1980s. After internship, licensing with the Ontario Association of Architects, and a decade of practice in Toronto, she retired from the profession to write full-time.
Since 2000, Ingrid’s poetry, fiction, interviews, book reviews, occasional essays and articles (as well as her work as an editor, designer, and visual artist) have appeared across Canada and internationally in numerous publications, including The Malahat Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Books in Canada, CNQ Canadian Notes & Queries, Quill & Quire, Magma (UK), in anthologies such as Letting Go (Black Moss Press, 2005), and also in translation. From 2000–2007 she co-edited, designed, and co-published the Canadian literary journal LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview (originally Lichen Literary Journal). A more detailed history can be found on her Writer page.
Her work has won a British Petra Kenney Poetry prize, the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Competition, and been awarded several Ontario Arts Council grants. She has read at literary events such as the Petra Kenney awards ceremony at Canada House in London, England (May 2006), the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival (September 2003), the Art Bar and the Hot Sauced poetry reading series in Toronto, and other venues.
Recent projects are: a full-length collection of her poems; the haiku sequence “Slipstream” and its visual counterpart (they’ll appear together in book form); the book Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (forthcoming from Guernica Editions, Toronto); and an extensive text fragment & visual art cycle–parts of which have been in exhibited in 2008, 2009, and upcoming in 2010–based on an in-progress manuscript. She also serves on the board of directors of The Driftwood Theatre Group.
Ingrid lives with her husband and two daughters east of Toronto.
