She's a Brooklyn girl! After more than 30 years of teaching Dance, French and Spanish, the author started writing in July of 2013 with Novel classes at Sackett Street and Gotham, as well as online workshops with One-Story. This a collection of eleven stories that are mostly fictionalized snapshots of her early life in Brooklyn and Queens. Her other published work includes the novel The Puppeteer's Daughter about an Italian-American immigrant who seeks to realize herself as a writer and a woman in late twentieth-century New York City. Her published novella is called The Feldmans, three interlinked stories about mid-twentieth century Jewish immigrant siblings, Arthur, Rose, and Joe, who put their family traditions on the line in their quest for love and matrimony in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The author currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Please contact her at her at her author website, which is https: //ruth-ward.squarespace.com or her business facebook page at https: //www.facebook.com. Her twitter hashtag is @Ruthward3.