The long and the short of it . . .
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THE SHORT
Ingrid Ruthig is a writer, editor, visual artist, and architect (retired), whose work won a British Petra Kenney Poetry Prize and the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival literary competition, and has appeared across Canada and internationally in publications such as The Malahat Review, Descant, The New Quarterly, Cordite (AUS), Magma (UK), Books in Canada, Rogue Stimulus (Mansfield Press), and many others. Her recent projects include the artist’s book Slipstream (ARKITEXWERKS & Soper Creek Chapbook Studio, 2011) and the volume Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions, 2011). She lives with her family near Toronto.
THE LONG
Ingrid Ruthig was born and raised in southwestern Ontario. Early studies in drawing, painting, design and drafting eventually led her, in the 1980s, to the University of Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Architecture. After post-graduate internship, subsequent licensing with the Ontario Association of Architects, and more than 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 (also in translation) in numerous publications, including The Malahat Review, Descant, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Prism, Magma (UK), Books in Canada, CNQ Canadian Notes & Queries, Maisonneuve, Quill & Quire, and anthologies such as Letting Go (Black Moss Press, 2005) and Rogue Stimulus (Mansfield Press, 2010). From January 2000 – June 2007 she co-edited, designed, and co-published the Canadian literary journal LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview (Lichen Literary Journal). She is currently an editor for Northern Poetry Review. A more detailed publication history can be found on her Writer page.
Her writing has been featured by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate, won a British Petra Kenney Poetry Prize, the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Literary Competition, and been awarded grants from the Ontario Arts Council as well as from the Writers’ Community of Durham Region. She has read at Canada House in London, England, Pandora’s Box Salon, the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, the Art Bar and the Hot Sauced poetry reading series in Toronto, and many other literary events. Her artwork is in private collections and has been shown in galleries and libraries.
Her books include the poem sequence/textwork Slipstream (ARKITEXWERKS & Soper Creek Chapbook Studio, 2011) and Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions, 2011). Other projects are a book-length collection of her poems and numerous textworks (visual art incorporating her writing).
As well, Ingrid has served on the board of directors of The Driftwood Theatre Group, remains a retired member of the Ontario Association of Architects, and is a member of the Writers’ Community of Durham Region, Whitby’s Station Gallery, and the PineRidge Arts Council.
She lives with her husband and daughters near Toronto.
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