Ruth Lacey is a writer and visual artist who grew up in Sydney and lives in a small kibbutz in the Galilee. She holds an Arts-Law degree from the University of Melbourne, and an MPhil in Writing from USW in Wales. Ruth has worked in Israel as a legal advisor, community manager, and journal editor. Her short fiction has appeared in Litro Magazine, Storgy, Fish Anthology, Best of Carve Anthology, Meniscus, Overland, Verbsap, Arc, and other journals, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her articles about Israel have appeared in the English-language Jewish Press and in the Australian anthology Remembering Rabin.