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Ruby Todd is a Melbourne-based writer with a PhD in writing and literature. She is the recipient of the 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest Award for Fiction and the inaugural 2020 Furphy Literary Award, among others. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Overland, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Bright Objects, was shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is a 2023 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
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The Strand Magazine: You have taught for many years at the university level and with private clients, covering many facets of literature and creativity. How has teaching shaped your writing? What do you think you have gained as a teacher that influences your own work?
Ruby Todd: Teaching has made me even more conscious of my craft—focusing on concrete details, description, visuality, voice, and ekphrasis—because I return to these elements when teaching, just as I do in my writing. Recently, I've been working more with individual students, and one thing they've taught me is that I'm often the last to know which aspects of my experience and approach to writing and reading will be the most valuable to them.
For example, one student and I are currently working on reading aloud from the openings of classic novels, then dissecting complex multi-clause sentences for her to emulate as a stylistic challenge. This was not what we initially set out to do, but it emerged naturally as we explored what exercises would best suit her goals.
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