Ruth E. Walker's poetry and fiction have been published in anthologies and journals in Canada, the UK and the US. Among other awards, she is a two-time winner of the Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry competition, and her first fiction submission won the "Canadian Living" magazine short story contest in 1996. Ruth is a founding editor for "LICHEN Arts & Letters Preview", and lives and writes in Whitby, Ontario. She can be contacted at: walkwrite@sympatico.ca.