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Ruth Taylor

Ruth Taylor worked as a journalist in Guatemala from 1994 to 2003, before returning to Canada and taking up fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Dalhousie Review, Potomac Review, and (forthcoming) This Magazine, among other journals. In 2024, she won the Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction and in 2025, the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction. Her debut novel EVEN THE BIRDS hits bookstores October 31. Ruth lives and writes in London, Ontario.

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