Ruth Vinz

Ruth Vinz teaches writing, literature, narrative research and is the author of nine books and the recipient of the Richard Meade Book Award. Vinz taught high school and currently is The Morse Endowed Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vinz calculates in her fifty-five years of teaching, she has responded to at least 32,500 students’ poems, essays, stories, research papers and dissertation drafts from which she continues to learn about the relationship of craft and meaning.