Ruth holds a Masters in Fine Arts for Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a registered nurse with two decades of experience in perinatal nursing. She is "mostly" from Chicago, but has lived in many places including Yemen, Kazakhstan and nine states in the U.S.A. She writes personal lyrical contemplative essays about birth, war and the natural world. She is a lover of aimless road trips, being a minority while aware of her own privilege in this role, cats and cozy quiet things of life like tea.

**Note: in relation to those Alaskan Native tribes remaining - there are many tribes who were in fact moved off their lands such as tribes in the Aleutian chain of islands during WW@ who were displaced throughout Alaska to terrible living conditions to allow for military installations in their villages. Some people returned after the war, but many did not. You can find out more by visiting the State of Alaska website - https://alaska.gov/kids/learn/nativeculture.htm

Ruth talks to me about being thrown into the real world, the exhaustion within patriarchal healthcare and unpicking the reality of white social colonisation.

Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery

Third culture kids

Maya Angelou