Domenica Ruta

Domenica Ruta is a fiction writer and memoirist from Massachusetts. A scholarship kid at Phillips Academy Andover and Oberlin College, she has worked as a videographer and editor, a book store clerk, a waitress, a bartender, an English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher, a nanny, a nursing home caregiver, a domestic violence hotline advocate, and a house cleaner. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin.

Her first novel, Last Day (Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House, 2019), was named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times.

Domenica Ruta’s short fiction has been published in the Boston Review, the 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 the American Scholar and works as an editor, curator, and advocate for solo moms at ESME.com.