About.

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

In 2023, she was selected for the WestWords Academy program. In 2024, she judged the Blacktown Mayoral Writing Prize and was awarded the WestWords Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency for 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. The film was produced by Relativity in partnership with Wollongong City Council and screened at the 2026 Creative Wollongong Short Film Competition and Festival. Ruth acted in the short and also served as co-producer.

Ruth was a panellist at the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne and read at a poetry salon as part of the Manly Writers’ Festival in 2026.

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

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