Author Shawn Stewart Ruff

Saturday, Mar. 8, 7pm

Author of Jazzed and astrology columnist Jill Dearman hosts an evening at Spotty Dog

The Spotty Dog Books & Ale
440 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534

SHAWN STEWART RUFF
(born July 19, 1959) is an American novelist and editor who won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards in 2008 for his debut novel Finlater. He has since published the novels Toss and Whirl and Pass (2010) GJS II (2016), Days Running (2025), and the novella One/10th (2013).

He is also the editor of the landmark Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996), which was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthologies at the 9th Lambda Literary Awards in 1997.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he studied English literature at the University of Cincinnati. He is currently based in New York City.