Ruth Edgett

Ruth Edgett is a former newspaper journalist who now works as a communications consultant. She is originally from Canada's Maritimes and lives in Ontario. Her writing often draws on historical events and life in Maritime Canada. Her creative non-fiction book A Watch in the Night (Nimbus, 2007) tells the story of a lightkeeping family on Pomquet Island. Her short story 'Hill 145' won CONSEQUENCE Magazine's 'Women Writing War' Fiction Prize in 2017. She contributed to Consequence's tenth-anniversary issue in 2018.