Ruth Steinberg

Ruth Steinberg, a Holocaust refugee from Vienna, came to the U.S. when she was four and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. She married young, had two children, divorced, and became a single mother.She has lived in Maryland, Colorado, and now lives in New Jersey.

She was always a writer and keen editor. Highlights of her professional career in the fields of public relations and publication include vice president of a PR and advertising agency, managing editor of one magazine and editor of another. She retired as the director of technical publication at a telecommunications R&D company.

After taking early retirement she turned her writing skills to poetry. The subjects of her gemlike, deceptively simple poems range from the Holocaust to observations of New York street scenes, from immigration to being Jewish, from family life to aging, in starkly expressed, powerful and compelling lines. She has published two full-length books of poetry, A Certain Frame of Reference and A Step in Time, and one chapbook, Word Play. In addition, her poems have appeared in a variety of print and online journals.