Ruth McArthur

Ruth is a poet and birder who has recently moved from the Texas Hill Country to Boston. Her poems have appeared in Ocotillo Review, Voices de la Luna, Underwood Press, Blue Heron Review, Plants and Poetry, Through Layered Limestone: A Texas Hill Country Anthology of Place, From Whispers to Roars, Easing the Edges, and the 2021 Texas Poetry Calendar. Currently, she is working on a series of poems about place. Her first book of poems, Persistence, is available from Finishing Line Press or Amazon. Check out her website!

“Matelea reticulata (Pearl Milkweed)” and “Texas Hill Country” featured in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol. 2.