Ruth LeFaive lives in Los Angeles. Her stories have won or placed in CRAFT's 2020 Flash Fiction Contest, the 2021 SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, and Fractured Lit's 2020 Micro Fiction Prize. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions 2018, guest edited by Aimee Bender.

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For more than a decade, Ruth has provided bookkeeping services for a variety of nonprofits and leading arts & entertainment companies whose missions align with her values of collective liberation through care and artistic expression. Although not currently pursuing new clients, she’s happy to schedule a consultation if you’ve been referred by a current client. She is the Treasurer of Split Lip Magazine.

 

Originally from the southern suburbs of Washington DC, Ruth made a home in Los Angeles working in television and film post-production and exploring the dusty fire roads of the Santa Monica Mountains. Transitioning from visual effects to finance allowed her to become a self-employed bookkeeper with the means to center her creative focus on the literary arts. She's taken extensive coursework at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, and attended the Tin House Summer Workshop. She served as a reader for Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading from 2016 to 2018, before her current posts reading flash prose for Electric Literature’s The Commuter, and Split Lip Magazine. Her interviews with prominent authors have appeared in Longreads, The Rumpus, and Split Lip Magazine. She is currently writing a collection of short fiction.