Skilbeck, Ruth

Ruth Skilbeck was born in London, and has lived and worked in Dublin, London and Sydney as a freelance journalist for many publications, and radio including as a writer/presenter on the BBC World Service's Book Choice, and as a part-time academic. She holds a Ph.D. and Master of Arts in Writing from UTS (University of Technology, Sydney), and B.A. Honours in Philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of The Writer's Fugue, a musico-literary study, her writing is widely published, in anthologies, and periodicals, and she is a recipient of awards such as the Australia Council