Ruth Spack

Ruth Spack, a retired professor of English, currently teaches writing in the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program at Brandeis University. Her scholarly publications include America’s Second Tongue, which was awarded the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize by the Modern Language Association and named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. After a long and fulfilling career as an academic writer, she now focuses exclusively on creative writing. Her essays and short stories appear in bioStories, Little Old Lady Comedy, Streetlight Magazine, and Jewish Fiction .net.