Ruth Williams is the author of a poetry collection, Flatlands (Black Lawrence Press) and two chapbooks, Conveyance (Dancing Girl Press) and Nursewifery (Jacar Press). Her poetry has also appeared in literary journals such as 32 Poems, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and Faultline among others. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at William Jewell College.