Nesha Ruther
she/her | Writer, Editor | Cincinnati, OH, United States
Nesha Ruther is a writer and editor. She was the 2016 winner of the DC Commission of the Arts Larry Neal Writing Award, the 2017 winner of the Mochila Review Writing Award, which was judged by Nikki Giovanni, a 2020 winner of the University of Wisconsin’s Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Award, a 2022 Tin House Scholar, and the 2023 winner of Lilith Magazine’s Fiction Contest. She is currently an MFA candidate in fiction writing at the University of Kentucky.
Selected work
Autumn Chill
Lilith Magazine, 2023
Untitled Love Poem
Narrative Northeast, 2019
In Which the Wall Spits Back My Prayers
New Voices, 2019
(Where) My Body Did Not End
New Voices, 2019
And on the Sixth Day
ANGLES Literary Magazine, 2018
A Day in Ramallah
New Voices, 2018
On Swastikas Outside the Synagogue
ANGLES Literary Magazine, 2018
How We Became White
Soon
L'Chaim
Split This Rock, 2017
A Love Poem to Ernst Winter
Mochila Review, 2017
And The Sages Said Let Him Die
New Voices, 2019
Prom
Beltway Poetry Quarterly - Literary Journal, 2016