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.
For more than a decade, Ruth has provided bookkeeping services for a variety of nonprofits and arts & entertainment companies. 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.
Publications
Flash & Micro Fiction
Fractured Lit, April 2021
Second Place, 2020 Micro Fiction Prize
guest judge, Siân Griffiths
Heavy Feather Review, March 2021
Interactive Visual Narrative User Experience
Collaboration w/ Joshua Jones & Lucy Zhang
"Where Everything Is Pristine"
Cheap Pop, January 2018
Atticus Review, January 2017
Little Fiction, The 2018 Flash Issue
Long-listed for the SmokeLong Quarterly
Award for Flash Fiction
"We Were Taught to Serve God and Country"
"This is Happening, This Will Happen"
The Offing, March 2018
Split Lip Magazine, November 2017
included in Best Small Fictions 2018
anthology guest editor, Aimee Bender
Nonfiction & Interviews
"Top Ten Things Worth Remembering in 2018"
Little Fiction's 2018 Year In Review
"Finding a Place to Think Deeply: A Conversation
Split Lip Magazine, April 2020
"Zones of Paradox: A Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt"
The Rumpus, July 2020
"Allowing Space: A Conversation with Chia-Chia Lin"
The Rumpus, May 2019
"'I Believe That Silence is Ineffective':
Devi S. Laskar on Invisibility and
Longreads, February 2019
"Galaxies in Houston: A Conversation with Bryan Washington"
The Rumpus, March 2019
"Life as a Series of Small Gestures: Talking with Jennifer Fliss"
The Rumpus, December 2021
"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you."
—Octavia E. Butler
