Ruby Appleby is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. You can find her work in Starling, Tarot, Re-Draft, Flash Frontier and a few other places. In 2023 she placed third in the the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition, and in 2025 her work was featured in the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook.
Selected work
The Consequences of Reading Devotions
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, 2025
Pulling Teeth
Tarot Poetry Journal, 2025
Acts of Love
Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction, 2024
Beneath the Skin
2024
letter to Milena
2024
backstage
Re-Draft, 2024
coffee date
a fine line, 2023
The Window
Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction, 2023
coming of age
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student Poetry Competition 2023, 2023
three haiku
Auroras & Blossoms, 2023
lavender heads
Starling, 2023