Barbara Ruth

Barbara Ruth was a recipient of a California Arts Council Artist in Residence grant at the Jewish Community Center of San Diego, CA., where she taught creative writing to people aged six through 86. She also was a poet-teacher and San Diego Area Coordinator of California Poets In the Schools. She wrote and performed with Mothertongue Readers’ Theater in San Francisco and Wry Crips Disabled Women’s Theater in Alameda County, CA. She is resident poet of Fabled Asp, a disabled lesbians storytelling and arts project. Her photography, memoirs, fiction and essays have appeared extensively in literary, gay, feminist and disability anthologies and journals. In 2014 she was a featured writer-activist at the biannual national gathering of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. She lives in San Jose, CA.