Ruby Mountain

by Ruth Nolan

$14.99, paper

Ruth Nolan is an author based in Californias Mojave and Coachella Deserts. A former seasonal wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management throughout the Western U.S., she is now professor of English and Creative Writing at College of the Desert in Palm Springs, CA. Her fiction appears in LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers (Red Hen Press, 2016), and shes most recently published poetry/prose in the Rattling Wall; Desert Oracle; Womens Studies Quarterly; New California Writing-Heyday Books; Lumen; Pacific Review; Rhino Baby; Poemeleon; and The Desert Sun.She writes feature articles about California desert culture and the environment forKCET/Artbound Los Angeles; Inlandia Literary Journeys, News from Native California, and Sierra Club Desert Report. Ruby Mountain is her first published poetry book.