Ruth Taylor worked as a journalist in Guatemala for nearly a decade 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 will be published fall 2026. Ruth lives and writes in London, Ontario.