Nesha Ruther
MFA Candidate
Graduate Instructor
Nesha Ruther (she/her) is a first-year MFA candidate in fiction writing and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the College of Arts and Sciences. She was born and raised in Maryland, but has spent her adult life in the Midwest. Her work is currently interested in the transition from adolescence to adulthood and and reimagining the bildungsroman.
Her office hours are Mondays, 12-2 and Thursdays, 12:30-2:30 at 1302 Patterson Office Tower
Contact Information
nkru224@uky.edu
1302 Patterson Office Tower
Education
Nesha graduated with an MA in English and Jewish Studies, and a minor in Gender & Women's Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was the 2016 winner of the DC Commission of the Arts Larry Neal Writing Award, the 2017 winner of the Mochila Review Writing Award, which was judged by Nikki Giovanni, a 2020 winner of the University of Wisconsin’s Eudora Welty Fiction Thesis Award, a 2022 Tin House Scholar, and the 2023 winner of Lilith Magazine’s Fiction Contest. She has had work published in Lilith Magazine, NarrativeNortheast, Angles Literary Magazine, Beltway Quarterly and more.
Affiliations
- English