Ruth Obee ~ Author & Poet

Ruth Obee is an author, feature writer, and award-winning poet who has served abroad with her husband, a diplomat, in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Tanzania, and South Africa.  In between overseas postings, she lived in Washington, D.C.  She is a former teacher and editor of the monthly publication of the Association of American Foreign Service Women.  In 1995, she returned to Colorado Springs to rediscover her own Western American roots.

Now Available!

Ruth Obee’s new collection of poetry and essays, Convergences, covers themes ranging from the COVID pandemic to the threatened extinction of the African rhino. She memorializes remote locales in South Asia and Africa where she once lived to her home in the American Southwest, with its unique natural beauty and distinctive history.  Order from Clausen Books Colorado Springs.