Ruth Harwood

Ruth Harwood (December 14, 1896 - March 1959) was an American poet.

Life
Harwood was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Harriet (Richards) and James Taylor Harwood.

Around 1916 she enrolled at the University of Utah, where she won a prize for "the best poetry of the year, 1919-20." She graduated with a degree in English in 1920. The following year she moved to California, and began graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, where she won the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize…for the best unpublished group of poems during the year."