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Ruby grew up in Rochester, NY and spent her childhood summers on
Canandaigua Lake, the setting for her debut novel, THE LANGUAGE
OF TREES. She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction,
chosen by T.C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and
the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. Ruby
is also a recipient of the Wesleyan Writer's Conference Davidoff
Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award for Outstanding Teaching
and Scholarship. She has worked on PBS archaeology documentaries
in Central America, taught 5th grade in Los Angeles on the heels
of the Rodney King riots of 1992, and written two children's books,
MAKING GOLD and THE LAST BOAT. In 1995, she graduated from the Masters
of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California,
where she was fiction editor of The Southern California Anthology.
Ruby is a painter, poet and proud adoptive mom to three children
from Ethiopia.
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