Ruth Stacey

Ruth Stacey is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Worcester. Her poetry collections include Queen, Jewel, Mistress (Eyewear Publishing, 2015), and I, Ursula (V.Press, 2020). Inheritance (Mothers Milk Books, 2017) is a duet with another poet, Katy Wareham Morris, which explores 19th-century experience of motherhood, contrasted with a 21st-century mother's voice. Inheritance won Best Collaborative Work at the 2018 Saboteur Awards. A poetic memoir, How to Wear Grunge, was published by The Knives, Forks and Spoons (2018), and text/image pamphlets Viola, the Virgin Queen and The Dark Room: Letters to Krista (2021). Stacey is currently working on a novel and her latest poetry collection, Feel Everything! an imagined memoir about the tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith.