Ruth Cooper is a California native living in Ojai, California. She graduated from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara with a BA in literature, and has her master's degree from Pacifica Graduate School in counseling psychology. She works full-time as a psychotherapist. She has been published in several poetry journals. She has published two chapbooks,"I Was Born Wild", and "Persimmons". She has a deep love for poetry that was meant to be read aloud.