Ruth Joffre is an American writer-in-residence and author of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and flash-fiction. Her debut book Night Beast and Other stories was published in 2018. Early life and education Joffe was born in Northern Virginia to a Bolivian mother. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast among others. She has also conducted an interview series on Catapult, where she has interviewed Melissa Febos and Matt Bell. Her short story "Night Beast", which became the titular story of her debut collection of short stories Night Beast and Other Stories, was selected by American author Kelly Link as winner of the Masters Review Fall Fiction Contest. Selected publications Books * Night Beast and Other Stories, Black Cat, Grove Atlantic, 2018 Other publications * A Matter of Distance, A Matter of Time, Prairie Schooner, University of Nebraska Press, Volume 91, Number 2, Summer 2017 pp. 155-156 * Concussion, 2019, CutBank: Vol. 1: Issue. 90, Article 9 * A Girl Opens a Museum, Pidgeonholes, 2021 * What I'm Made Of, Fiction Southeast, 2021 Literary reviews * Review of Companion to an Untold Story, by Marcia Aldrich, 2012 Personal life Joffe lives in Seattle.<ref name=":0" />
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