Ruby Todd

Ruby Todd is the author of the debut novel, Bright Objects. Named a Best Book of 2024 by Publishers Weekly, Bright Objects  is set in a small town in Australia, where the appearance of a comet that has not been visible for centuries sets off a series of dramatic events for a young widow, an American astronomer, and a Doomsday prophet.  The reviewer in the daily New York Times called it " luminous, unusual, unexpected."  The  New York Times Book Review named it an Editors' Choice: "Ruby Todd's gorgeously written Bright Objects...cranks into an unexpected thrillerish gear toward the end...the prose burns bright."

Winner of the Ploughshares magazine Emerging Writer’s Contest, the AAWP Chapter One Prize, and the inaugural Furphy Literary Award, Australia’s largest prize for a short story, she is also a creative researcher, poet, and essayist. Todd holds a PhD in poetics from Deakin University, Australia, and a B.A in Creative Writing and Visual Media from the University of Melbourne, Australia.