Domenica Ruta

A fiction writer and memoirist from Massachusetts and a scholarship kid at Phillips Academy Andover and Oberlin, Domenica Ruta has worked as a videographer and editor, bookstore clerk, waitress, bartender, English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher, nanny, nursing home caregiver, domestic violence hotline advocate, and house cleaner. Her first novel, Last Day (Speigal & Grau/Penguin Random House, 2019), was named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Ruta’s short fiction has been published in Boston Review, Indiana Review, and Epoch. Her essays have appeared in 9th Letter, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. She reviews books for The New York Times, Oprah.com, and American Scholar and works as an editor, curator, and advocate for solo moms at ESME.com.