Ruth F. Harrison (1930-2021), was a professor of medieval literature, lived near Waldport on the central Oregon coast. She judged in contests sponsored by OSPA, NFSPS, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg, Chapparal Poets, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle, among many others. Her publications included two textbooks, two poetry collections (Bone Flute, 1996; and Namesong, 2004), and three chapbooks. Her work appeared in Harp Strings, Poets' Forum Magazine, Kestrel, Denver Quarterly, Manzanita Quarterly, West Wind Review, Plainsong, Edgz, Tiger's Eye, The Lyric, and other journals, and the Oregon bridges anthology; and online the packratnest and Lewis Turco's blog. Several poems were included in Turco's fourth edition of The Book of Forms. Her poems have won numerous awards in recent Formalist, NFSPS, and OSPA contests. Several poems received a Pushcart Prize nomination.