Other Writing
Essays, poems, interviews, and short fiction
Items marked with a ★ are noted as available online (add links when you have them).
Selected list
- Interview in Fiction Writers Review, Ruth interviews author Nancy Kilgore about her novel Bitter Magic (Oct 14, 2021) — Add link
- “Ash Season,” poem, grand prize in PCUSA Writers Guild Contest (Feb 15, 2021) — Add link
- “The Shell and I,” essay, Assisi Journal (Fall 2019 / Spring 2020) — Add link
- “What the Darkness Says,” essay, Natural Bridge Literary Journal, Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis (Fall 2018)
- Letter to The New York Times (May 29, 2018) — Add link
- “Dark Harbor,” poem, Raven Chronicles (Spring 2011)
- “Humanitarian to the Bone,” essay, Town & Country Magazine (June 2009)
- “Witness” and “After his Fall,” poems, Ancient Paths (2007)
- “Night Cries,” poem, Potato Eyes Literary Journal (1995–1996)
- “A River Runs Through It,” essay, Chicago Tribune (Sunday, Mar 14, 1993) — Add link
- “Cycling Dingle,” essay, Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer (Mar 17, 1991)
- “Arrested in Mid-flight,” short story, The Threepenny Review (Fall 1982)
- An Interview by Sheila Bender with Ruth Linnea Whitney on writing Mimosa Road (Mar 7, 2024) — Add link
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