Biography
Ruth Linnea Whitney is the author of two novels, Slim (SMU Press, 2003) and Mimosa Road (January, 2023). Slim received the Angell Award from the PCUSA Writer’s Guild. Both novels are set in sub-Saharan Africa, where she once lived.
With her husband, David, an Orthopedist, she has made lengthy sojourns volunteering in other countries in Africa. She has taught primary school subjects to AIDS orphans in Uganda, and ESL to nurses in Vietnam and to immigrants at Peninsula College in Port Townsend, WA, where she lives with husband David.
Her love of singing harmony plays into her writing, wherein she seeks paths to harmony in a discordant world and gives voice to those seldom heard.