RUTH TOWNE 

POET AND WRITER

Ruth Towne is the author of So the Sadness Could Not Hurt (Kelsay Books, 2025). Her first full-length poetry collection, Resurrection of the Mannequins, is also forthcoming from Kelsay Books (2025).

So the Sadness Could Not Hurt

Poems by Ruth Towne

Ruth Towne’s debut chapbook is available now from Kelsay Books.

Available for purchase at KelsayBooks.com and Amazon.com.

  • “S@lv@d°r D@l!’s Mannequin”

    2025 Best of the Net Anthology Nominee

  • “So the Sadness Could Not Hurt”

    Grantchester Award, Second Place
    The Orchards Poetry Journal

  • COMING SOON: Resurrection of the Mannequins

    Forthcoming from Kelsay Books (2025)