Ruth Panofsky
Biography
Ruth Panofsky is a poet, writer, and editor. She is the author of four books of poetry: Bring Them Forth (Ekstasis Editions, 2022); Radiant Shards: Hoda’s North End Poems (Inanna Publications, 2020), which won a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award; Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices (Inanna Publications, 2007), which won the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award; and Lifeline (Guernica Editions, 2001) which was awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Reserve Grant. Laike et Nahum appeared in French translation by Antonio D’Alfonso (Noroît, 2022). Her poems and essays have been published in various journals, including Dalhousie Review, Descant, the Literary Review of Canada, and White Wall Review. Originally from Montreal, she now lives and writes in Toronto and teaches Canadian Literature at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Published Works
Poetry
Bring Them Forth (Ekstasis Editions, 2022)
Laike et Nahum: Un poème à deux voix. Traduit de l’anglais par Antonio D’Alfonso (Éditions du Noroît, 2022)
Radiant Shards: Hoda’s North End Poems (Inanna Publications, 2020)
Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices (Inanna Publications, 2007)
Lifeline (Guernica Editions, 2001)
Edited Works
The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing (New Jewish Press, 2020)
The New Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing (New Jewish Press, 2017)
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition (University of Ottawa Press, 2014)
Adele Wiseman: Essays on Her Works (Guernica Editions, 2001)
Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
Links to Sample Works
- The Quarantine Review, “Réve au chocolat”
- League of Canadian Poets, “Flasher”
- League of Canadian Poets, “Cobra Chickens”
