Biography
About
Ruth McIver is an award-winning crime writer born in Ireland, raised between Dublin, Perth and NYC. Her critically acclaimed 2021 literary crime thriller debut, I Shot the Devil, won the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging authors and an Affirm Press Mentorship Award.
That same year, her first unpublished manuscript, Nothing Gold was runner up for the inaugural Banjo Awards and was included in Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect.
About
Prior to writing crime fiction, Ruth worked as a reviewer, freelance journalist and completed a novel-in-verse as part of an Australian Poetry residency - The Sunset Club, was highly commended in the Anne Elder category in 2014 and converted into a live art performance. Ruth has a PhD from Curtin University and works as a sessional academic, workshop facilitator and manuscript assessor/structural editor with Writer’s Victoria and Queensland Writer’s centre.
She is also the author of Blackout (Audible Australia) and The Sound, coming out in summer 2025 with Blackstone USA. She is represented by the boutique LA agency for bestselling international authors, The Story Factory.
