Ruth J. Heflin is the author of Pitiless Bronze: A Postpatriarchal Examination of Prepatriarchal Cultures and of I Remain Alive: A Sioux Literary Renaissance (her doctoral dissertation and, later, her first scholarly book), the young adult novel Yonni Hale and the Cosmic Wind, and Time Coven, a collection of short fiction. In addition, she has written two screenplays, Mrs. Nash and Dr. Cooper's Finishing School for Incels. She is also currently writing two novels and another scholarly book, a critical edition of Charles Eastman's Red Hunters and the Animal People, noting ecological changes in the real places described in his book over the last 135 years. As a graduate student, Ruth worked for the Kansas Quarterly, Touchstone magazine, and the Midland Review.