Award-winning Author

My Story

Ruth Wire is an award-winning poet and screenwriter, a produced playwright, a published short story writer and a published lyricist.

In 2021, Ruth Wire entered her nineties – just in time to become a published novelist with her book The Night Birds Still Sing.

In Los Angeles of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, Ruth Wire attended writing workshops, won a poetry slam, and was published in Poetry & Prose magazine.

In Ashland, Oregon, she created a Writers’ Faire and two theaters: the New Playwrights Theatre with Bradford O’Neil, and Studio X Experimental Theatre with Scott and Peggy Avery. In 1995, Ruth started a workshop for writers.

Of her motivation as a writer, Ruth says she grew up watching her parents tear each other apart and has spent the rest of her life putting the pieces of her heart back together.

Today, she lives in Ashland, Oregon. She is the President of Ashland Contemporary Theatre Board, and continues to mentor the HayWire Writers’ Workshop.