Ruth Mota lived in Brazil for a decade, then made a career as an international health trainer. She leads poetry circles with veterans and incarcerated men in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Her verse has been accepted for publication in the Monterey Poetry Review, Caesura print and on-line versions, the 2018 50/50 Anthology of Quillsedge Press, and won honorable mention in the Passager Books 2018 Poetry Prize Collection.