Ruth Zavitz

Ruth Zavitz has been writing ever since she learned her ABCs, because it was the only way she could  get rid of the ideas and characters that went round and round in her brain. At the age of sixteen, she won honorable mention in a poetry contest. She has published over 350 articles, essays and short stories. Her gardening book High on Grass, Ornamental Grasses for Northern Gardens, was published in 2007 by The Chestnut Group.

Like many authors, Ruth's goal was to have a traditional  publisher issue her fiction. This she accomplished in 2014 with the publication of her historical novel, Flight to the Frontier, set in the 1780s in New York State and Niagara. The sequel, Niagara Odyssey was published in October 2015. Her publisher, Chronicler Publishing, is currently considering Kitty Brant, a novel about British civilian life during the First World War. Always interested  in pioneer history, and particularly in how ordinary people, the bystanders, coped with conditions not of their choosing, she pays particular attention to the language, customs, and conditions of the times she writes about.

Ruth is a fifth generation Canadian who lives in Southern Ontario, among her five children, seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren--and their assorted spouses. The demands of a cranky computer and equally cranky cat fill any spare moments.