Ruth Nott is 74, a native Floridian, born in the Orlando area, who has found poetry to be a valued part of her life. Her poetry reflects her faith and values and a deep love for God and family. In addition to her poetry, Ruth keeps busy in retirement with her friends in the “Mad Hatters” and “Springhouse” quilt guilds, is a member of the Suwannee River Poets of Chiefland, FL, and is active in the First Christian Church of Chiefland, FL. Ruth has self-published five books of poetry which include A Pure and Simple Faith, Crazy Patch, Where Memory Lingers, Haiku for Lovers, and Garden of Faith. Ruth has also helped her family self-publish an anthology of poems, stories and essays called Family Matters. Family Matters II will be published in 2008. Ruth states, "Much of my poetry is Christian/inspirational, but just as the pieces of a Crazy Patch quilt are varied in size and shape, other poems in my collections are representative of my crazy patch life, some bright and new, some showing their age, some seemingly finding their way here from an alternate universe. Just as our lives twist and turn on a whim, so does my poetry patchwork."  

Ruth's work has been published in various anthologies of the International Library of Poetry, small press magazines, Poetry Canada magazine, The Quilter magazine, The Joy of Living (Poetry Collection by Hazel Street Publications), Sea Oats Review a magazine by the Panama City Writer’s Assoc., Mahogany and Molasses, Verse-a-tility (chapbook of the Chiefland Poetry Group), Anthology Twenty-Four (Florida State Poets Assoc., Inc.), Of Poets and Poetry (newsletter of the Florida State Poets Assoc., Inc.), Imagine, (Voices from the Hazel Street Image-In Contest), various newsletters, and several poetry websites, blogs, and groups.