About Beth Ruscio author of Speaking Parts
Beth Ruscio
author of Speaking Parts
Beth Ruscio, daughter of actors, is part of a working class family of artists, actors, teachers and writers working in California. Her poetry has been Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated and won finalist honors for several prizes and awards: The Wilder Prize, The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, The Tupelo Quarterly Prize, The Ruth Stone Poetry Award and The Two Sylvias Prize. She was the second prize winner in Beyond Baroque’s Best Poem Contest, was named a Newer Poet by Los Angeles Poetry Festival and won the Patricia Bibby Scholarship to Idyllwild Poetry awarded by Cecilia Woloch. Speaking Parts, her first full-length collection, won the Brick Road Poetry Prize.
A featured poet and frequent contributor to Cathexis Northwest Press, as well as Cultural Weekly, other recent work has been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Tulane Review, Spillway, Malpais Review, High Shelf, and is forthcoming in Apeiron Review. Her poems also appear in the anthologies Dark Ink: Poetry Inspired by Horror; Beyond the Lyric Moment; 1001 Nights; and Conducting a Life: Maria Irene Fornes.
Ruscio is also an accomplished, award-winning film, television and theatre actress, and a longtime mentor at Otis College of Art and Design. She shares her life with her husband, the gifted playwright and teacher Leon Martell and their talented dog Lolita.
Discover more: please visit her website at www.bethruscio.com.