Ruth Awad

Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 

Awad is the author of the poetry collections Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the coeditor, with Rachel Mennies, of the poetry anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020).

Awad is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2016 and 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, and the 2012 and 2013 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.