Forthcoming
October 5, 2021
Forthcoming
June 14th, 2021

Latah Books

Rue Matthiessen
Rue Matthiessen is based on the East End of Long Island and in New York City. At Bard College she majored in literature, and afterwards was a journalist for The East Hampton Star. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley writer’s conference, Bread Loaf, and Curtis Brown Creative. Her completed works include a novel, Woman with Closed Eyes, a novella, The Toast, and a collection of essays on family life, loss, creativity, and fulfillment, Blastocyst. Her book, Buttonwood Cottage, about renovating a house in the Caribbean, is available on Amazon. Her essay, There Was a Time was featured in the summer issue of EAP: The Magazine. Two of her essays, Real Life and LSD & Zen, were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Rue’s memoir, Castles & Ruins, about growing up in an ambitious literary family with author Deborah Love and 2x National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen as parents, will be published by Latah Books in 2024.
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