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Ruby Todd

Ruby Todd is a Melbourne-based writer with a PhD in writing and literature. She is the recipient of the 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest Award for Fiction and the inaugural 2020 Furphy Literary Award, among others. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Overland, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Bright Objects, was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is a 2023 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.

This biography was last updated on 07/16/2024.

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