Ruth Joffre

Ruth Joffre is a Bolivian American writer, editor, and critic. She’s the author of the story collection Night Beast and the flash chapbook Lies I Tell My Children. Her work has been shortlisted for the Creative Capital Award, longlisted for The Story Prize, and supported by residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lighthouse Works, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and The Arctic Circle. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 100 publications, including Lightspeed, Pleiades, Nightmare, TriQuarterly, Reckoning, Wigleaf, and numerous anthologies.