Ruth Thompson

QUICKWATER ORACLES just won a 2022 Montaigne Medal and was Shortlisted for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize!

With QUICKWATER ORACLES, Ruth's book of uninhibited conversations and meditations with trees, birds, faeries, dragons, and a host of other physical and nonphysical beings, readers are deepening their own daily practice of authenticity and joy.

"A slow build toward jubilance," wrote Foreword Reviews. "Feels like reading Rumi or Lakshminkara or Julian of Norwich…. I find myself happy in ways I can’t explain,” wrote Mary Johnson. And yoga icon Angela Farmer wrote simply, "I am in love with this book!"

Ruth Thompson has published four books of poetry: Whale Fall & Black Sage, Crazing, Woman With Crows, and Here Along Cazenovia Creek. Her “fierce, gorgeous, sensual poems” have won many national awards, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize.

Ruth has a BA from Stanford University and a doctorate in English from Indiana University. She lives in the Finger Lakes with her partner, anthropologist-writer Don Mitchell. She teaches poetry, meditation, and writing from the body. Her work has been choreographed by the great dancer Shizuno Nasu of Japan and others.

Poems, press kit, and more information at ruththompson.net.

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