Author: Ruth Ann Dandrea

Ruth Ann Dandrea spent more than thirty years teaching high school kids to believe this truth: “Sometimes you need a story more than food to stay alive” (Badger in Barry Lopez’s Crow and Weasel). Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in literary magazines, newspapers and education publications. She is co-author of a book on women’s kayaking, called WOW: Women on Water, which was named the Adirondack Center for Writing’s nonfiction book of 2012. A book of her poetry, Castings, is forthcoming from Doubly Mad Press. She serves as fiction editor for the literary magazine Doubly Mad. Summer Thursdays you can find her paddling a yellow boat on quiet Adirondack waters.
Rocks, Fox and Wendell Berry

Rocks, Fox and Wendell Berry

"The fox stops, half turns, half stays. The way a fox will, being two things at once and daring both. Mottled coat, those delicate fairy tale feet, one poised as if to point the way, a way for me to follow...." ... Read More
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Here and There

Here and There

BY Ruth Ann Dandrea | Peruvian blood. We must have some. It’s the only explanation for the way things are. The way we are. I’m reading Llosa in the lounge at the nursing home where my mother lives now. They tell me she is dying. So I am here, in ... Read More
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Writer. Not Author.

Writer. Not Author.

That’s me there. The girl in the brown and white saddle shoes. Clunky. Out of place even at her own desk. Worried that she doesn’t belong. Eager to please. Working her little fingers to nubbins trying to copy the cursive handwriting she is taught to do. Always wondering, watching for ... Read More
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