Ruth Forman is an American poet. Her content focuses on spirituality, love, challenge, and grace. She currently travels around the United States performing readings from her recent publication; Prayers Like Shoes, and her children's book; Young Cornrows Calling Out the Moon.

She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California film school.^[1]

She lives in Washington DC.^[2]

• 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel
• 1999 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry.
• 1992 Barnard Women Poets Prize

• "Poetry Should Ride the Bus", David Knecht
• Prayers Like Shoes. Whit Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9720205-8-9.
• Renaissance. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-6840-3.
• We Are the Young Magicians. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-6820-5.

• Ruth Forman; Cbabi Bayoc (illustrations) (2007). Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon. Children's Book Press. ISBN 978-0-89239-218-6. Ruth Foreman poet.

• Kalamu ya Salaam, ed. (1998). 360, a revolution of Black poets. Black Words. ISBN 978-0-7394-1585-6.
• Gerald Costanzo; Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
• Norman Minnick, ed. (2010). Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-935210-07-8.

• "Poet Ruth Forman Reads from 'Callin out the Moon'", NPR