Sarah ruden biography

American poet and author (born 1962)

Sarah Elizabeth Ruden is an American writer of poetry, essays, translations of Classic literature, and popularizations of Biblicalphilology, religious criticism and interpretation.^[1][2]

Early life

Sarah Ruden was born in Ohio in 1962 and raised in the United Methodist Church.^[3] She holds an M.A.

from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University.^[4]

In addition to her academic appointments, Ruden has worked as a medical editor, a contributor to American periodicals,^[5] and a stringer for the South African investigative magazine noseweek.^[6]

Ruden became an activist Quaker during her ten years spent in post-apartheid South Africa, where she was a tutor for the South African Education and Environment Project.^[7][8] Both before and after her return to the United States in 2005, Ruden has engaged in