Ruth Panofsky

Ruth Panofsky is an award-winning poet who lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches Canadian Literature and Culture at Ryerson University. She is the author of The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman (2006) and The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture (2012). Her award-winning critical edition of the collected poetry of Miriam Waddington appeared in two volumes in 2014 and, most recently, she edited The Spice Box: Canadian Jewish Writing (2017). Her newest work, Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing, which focuses on key twentieth-century publishers, editors, and literary agents, was published in 2019. She is also an award-winning poet. She received the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices (2007). Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems, her third volume of verse, received a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award.

Books by Ruth Panofsky

The New Spice Box

Radiant Shards: Hoda's North End Poems

Radiant Shards

Toronto Trailblazers

The New Spice Box

Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere

The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington

The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada

Laike and Nahum

The Force of Vocation

Adele Wiseman

Lifeline

Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman