Ilie Ruby’s second novel, THE SALT GOD’S DAUGHTER is due out September 5, 2012. Her debut novel THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (Avon HarperCollins) was published July 20, 2010. We are thrilled!
Ilie Ruby grew up in Rochester, NY and spent five years living in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach, California, the setting of her new novel. During her tenure in California, she was a public school teacher and then a graduate student at The University of Southern California. She is the winner of the Edwin L. Moses Award for Fiction, chosen by T.C. Boyle; a Kerr Foundation Fiction Scholarship; and the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Creative Achievement in Fiction. She is also the winner of the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference Davidoff Scholarship in Nonfiction and the Kemp Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship. She has worked on PBS archaeology documentaries in Central America, taught autistic children and adults, and edited books on writing. A painter and a poet, Ilie lives near Boston with her husband and three children.
