Michele Ruby

Michele Ruby lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, her children and her incredibly talented and brilliant grandchildren. When she’s not writing or reading, she plays tennis, canasta, mah jong, and – lest she become a cultural stereotype – she tap dances. Her fiction has appeared in Arts & Letters (winner of 2015 fiction prize), The Adirondack Review (Fulton Prize finalist), Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Shenandoah, The Louisville Review, Lilith, Los Angeles Review, Nimrod, Rosebud, Inkwell, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Phoebe, Denver Quarterly, New Delta Review, The MacGuffin, Alimentum, and many other journals.  A collection of stories was a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award, and two others were finalists for the St. Lawrence Book Award. She has an MFA from Spalding University, has taught fiction writing at Bellarmine University, and is now a fiction editor for Best New Writing.  She’s currently wrestling with a novel.