Elizabeth Ruth is a Toronto writer. Her novels are: Semi-Detached, Matadora, Smoke, and Ten Good Seconds of Silence. Her work has been recognized by the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, City of Toronto Book Award, Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award, One Book One Community, and Canada Reads. CBC named her “One of the Ten Canadian Women Writers You Must Read.” Ruth’s debut poetry collection is entitled, This Report Is Strictly Confidential and was the project she developed while at Berton House in 2019. Ruth is also the author of a plain language novella for adult literary learners, Love You To Death, and the editor of an anthology, Bent On Writing: contemporary queer tales. Ruth is known for her mentorship of aspiring writers. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto.