Ruth Nott is 68, retired, and living in Chiefland, Florida with her husband Merle and her Boston Terrier Pepper. Ruth has been writing poetry for many years, and has been published in several small press magazines, and in anthologies of the International Library of Poetry. Ruth has self-published five books of poetry. Ruth most enjoys rhyming poetry, but occasionally writes a few Haiku and free verse lines. Her work is often spiritual, inspirational, romantic, or occasionally amusing.