About.

Ruth Larner is an Australian multi-disciplinary writer, and actor.

In 2011, she co-wrote the short film Cecilia, which was produced and directed by Francis Annan. In 2023, she was selected for the WestWords Academy program. In 2024, she was a judge for the Blacktown Mayoral Writing Prize and was awarded the WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency on the back of her novel-in-progress, How To Kill A Garden. 

In 2025, her short film script Mama Bird won the Screen Illawarra x Creative Wollongong Short Film Competition, which will soon go into production with Relativity Films and be screened at the 2026 Creative Wollongong Short Film Competition and Festival. 

Her prose and poetry have appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, WestWords’ Living Stories anthologies, and The Suburban Review.

Having previously lived in London and Berlin, she now lives in Dharawal Country with her husband and young son.