Ruby Todd

Ruby Todd is an Australian writer and creative arts researcher.  Her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere.   She won the 2019 Ploughshares magazine Emerging Writer’s Contest for Fiction, the AAWP Chapter One Prize, and the 2020 inaugural Furphy Literary Award, Australia’s largest prize for a short story. She holds a PhD in poetics from Deakin University, Australia, and a B.A. in Creative Writing and Visual Media from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is currently at work on a novel.