About the Author

About Ruth McArthur

            In addition to her book, Ruth’s poems range from events on our southern border, observations of the natural world on her place, and in her Boston neighborhood. They have appeared in Ocotillo Review, Voices de la Luna, Underwood Press, Milagros, Blue Heron Review and Through Layered Limestone: A Texas Hill Country anthology of place.

            She is a certified Texas Master Naturalist (Hill Country Chapter, 2008) which opened her eyes to what is right in front of her, and through that organization became interested in birds and birding.

            Ruth and her husband lived for over 20 years on acreage along a creek outside a small town outside San Antonio. The property is under a Wildlife Management Valuation, which Ruth administered. Projects included managing the native but invasive Ashe juniper, urging old ag fields to become prairies once again, caring for the riparian area, managing habitat for deer and songbirds.

            She now lives in Boston two blocks from her daughter’s family. Her greatest accomplishment as an author is that her young grandson chose a warty pumpkin for Halloween because she once wrote a book for him, Bumpy Pumpkin.