Ruth Carr was born in Belfast in 1953. Ruth has edited two significant anthologies: The Female Line was published by the Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement in 1985 to mark their 10th anniversary. She worked there at the time as an ACE worker. The Female Line was the first anthology of women writers to come out of Northern Ireland at a time when few women were in print. And Her Other Language, Northern Irish Women Writers Address Domestic Violence and Abuse, co-edited with Natasha Cuddington was published by Arlen House in 2020. Her three poetry collections are: There is a House and The Airing Cupboard (Summer Palace Press), Feather and Bone, which reflects on the lives of Mary Ann McCracken and Dorothy Wordsworth (Arlen House). Ruth has worked as a creative writing tutor in community education for nearly 40 years.
Her essay on Word of Mouth Poetry Collective is included in Female Lines (New Island, 2017).