After gaining an M.Phil in Writing from Glamorgan University, Ruth Joseph was approached by Accent Press, to publish Red Stilettos. It includes ‘Patchwork’, a Rhys Davies prize winner and ‘Stealing Baby’, which won the Lichfield Short Story Prize. Other work has been published in New Welsh Review, Parthian, Honno, Loki, Cambrensis, and The Western Mail Magazine. Her memoir Remembering Judith which chronicles her life as a child-carer to an anorexic mother has been published by Accent Press and was featured in the Guardian. She lives in Cardiff and adores her husband Mervyn, family and rescue-Labrador Bobbi.