Press
Brooklyn Poets, Poet of the Week, November 2024
Write or Die Magazine, Ruth Awad: On Reclaiming Tenderness, the Duality of Endings, and Her Second Poetry Collection ‘Outside the Joy’, October 2024
Matter News, Ruth Awad centers the experiences that exist ‘Outside the Joy’, September 2024
Sentinel-Tribune, BGSU ‘arts from home’ features poet, October 2020
BG Independent News, Ruth Awad to share poems touched by war, loss, & love in virtual reading as part of BGSU virtual arts series, September 2020
Kenyon Review, KR Podcast with Ruth Awad, July 2020
Columbus Alive, Things We Love: Picks from Ruth Awad, November 2019
Words Without Borders, The City and the Writer: In Tripoli, Lebanon with Ruth Awad, May 2019
WOSU, Columbus Poet Calls For Diversity Panel At Ohioana Book Festival, April 2019
Columbus Alive, Arts preview: Ruth Awad at Ohioana Book Festival, April 2018
Flypaper Magazine, Q&A with Ruth Awad, February 2018
Bad Binch Interview Series, January 2018
Cosmonauts Avenue, Tiny Spills, December 2017
WOUB, Talking Dogs and Poetry With Writer Ruth Awad, October 2017
The Adroit Journal, A Conversation with Ruth Awad, October 2017
The Best Poems Break Your Heart: An Interview with Ruth Awad by Emilia Phillips, September 2017
VIDA, Voices of Bettering American Poetry, August 2017
Columbus Alive, Locals: Musicians and poets merge onstage, January 2016
Howlarium: When is songwriting poetry? September 2016
Interview with John Hoppenthaler in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, July 2016
Interview with Darren C. Demaree for CookBook, June 2015
Geosi Reads: Interview with Award Winning Poet and Tattoo Artist, Ruth Awad, October 2014
Listen to Ada Limón read my poem “Reasons to Live”
On this special episode of Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed, and Zach talk to the U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, about her anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World.
News & Features
Columbus Dispatch, Arts Feature: Columbus poet Ruth Awad shares experience with hair loss, grief in new collections, August 2023
Columbus Dispatch, Ohio art organizations, poets awarded $650,000 in federal grants for future projects, February 2021
Columbus Alive, ‘Rhapsody & Refrain: 30 Columbus Poets’ starts this weekend, August 2019
Columbus Dispatch, Two central Ohioans among Ohioana winners, July 2018
University of Southern Indiana, Awad named 2018 Ohioana Awards poetry winner, July 2018
Poetry Society of America, In Their Own Words, November 2017
Poem of the Week, October 2017
Featured work in Mayday Issue 12, January 2017
Author Feature in Shantih 2.2, January 2017
Writer of the Week, Maudlin House, March 2017
A Year in Reading: Kaveh Akbar, The Millions, December 2017
Featured in Tattooed Poets Project, February 2016
Featured Poet in Atticus Review, February 2016
Awards
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Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizewinner, 2013 and 2012
Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Alumni Association Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, 2012
Copper Nickel Poetry Contest winner, 2011
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2012
Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Roxana Rivera Poetry Contest Winner, 2011
The Ohio State University: Citino Undergraduate Poetry Award, 2009
The Ohio State University: Reba Elaine Pearl Burkhardt Roorbach Award in Creative Nonfiction, 2009
The Ohio State University: Gertrude Lucille Robinson Award, 2009
The Ohio State University: Vandewater Poetry Award, 2009
Academy of American Poets: Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, 2008