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. 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 guest at the Manly Writers’ Festival ‘26, where she read her poetry.

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.