Schwartz, Ruth L.

Ruth L. Schwartz was born in 1962 and spent her childhood and early adulthood moving around the United States. She left home at age sixteen, received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, then settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1985. She worked as an AIDS educator for many years, and has taught creative writing at Cleveland State University and Goddard College. She teaches at California State University, Fresno. Schwartz's first book, "Accordion Breathing and Dancing, " won the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Award and was published by the Uni...