Translated into six languages, Ruth O'Callaghan is an international poet who has read/lead workshops in Europe, Asia and the USA - where she was the only poet reading to nearly a thousand whilst the next day the audience was outnumbered by buffalo. A poet needs a sense of humor! A Hawthornden Fellow, international competition adjudicator, interviewer, reviewer, editor and mentor she works with both novice and more established poets. She has nine full collections a book of interviews with 23 internationally eminent women poets. She's won a gold medal at the XXX World Congress of Poets in Taiwan, whilst her collaboration with women poets in Mongolia produced a fascinating book.