Ruth Harper is professor emerita of counseling and human development at South Dakota State University. During her career, she co-authored and edited four books in her academic field. Harper has always loved poetry, and in retirement has written and published several poems. Finishing Line Press published her first chapbook, Uncertain Seasons, this year. She lives in Brookings.

Featured title: Uncertain Seasons

RUTH’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 22 @ 12:45 p.m. – Fiction? Poetry? Me? Academics Get Creative – The Lodge, Russell Room
• Friday, Sept. 22 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Lodge, Bullock & Roosevelt Rooms
• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 9:00 a.m. – A Ray of Poetry: A Reading from Uncertain Seasons – The Lodge, Cody Room
• Saturday, Sept. 23 @ 12:45 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Lodge, Bullock & Roosevelt Rooms

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