
Ruth Stacey’s first poetry collection Queen, Jewel, Mistress was published by Eyewear Publishing, 2015, and her second full collection, I, Ursula, was published in January 2020 by V. Press Poetry. Pamphlets include, Inheritance, published by Mothers Milk Books in 2017. A duet with Katy Wareham Morris, the collection explores 19th century experience of motherhood, contrasted with a 21st century mother’s voice. Inheritance won Best Collaborative Work at the 2018 Saboteur Awards. Three pamphlets with Knives, Forks and Spoons Press. A poetic memoir, How to Wear Grunge, was published in 2018. Viola the Virgin Queen, illustrated by Desdemona McCannon, was published in 2020, and her latest work, The Dark Room: Letters to Krista, a collaboration with the American photographer Krista Kay, was published in 2021. Stacey is currently writing an imagined memoir of the tarot artist Pamela Colman Smith, as part of her PhD study.








