Ruth Towne is a life-long resident of Southern Maine. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA. She is a frequent volunteer with the Stonecoast Review and was Poetry Editor for Issue 23.

Ruth Towne is the author of So the Sadness Could Not Hurt (Kelsay Books, 2025). Her poem “So the Sadness Could Not Hurt” received the second-place Grantchester Award from The Orchards Poetry Journal. Other poems from her chapbook—“Leap” and “Torricelli Apparatus”—appeared in Stanford’s Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation. 

Her full-length poetry collection, Resurrection of the Mannequins, is available from Kelsay Books (2025). Two poems from her collection— “S@lv@d°r D@l!’s Mannequin” published in BAM Quarterly, Issue III, and “Seventh Peril” published in foofaraw—were nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology.