Ruth McIver

A portrait of Ruth McIver

Ruth McIver is an award-winning crime writer born in Ireland, raised between Dublin, Perth and NYC. Her critically acclaimed 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 That same year, her first unpublished manuscript, Nothing Gold was runner up for the inaugural Banjo Awards and was included in Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect. Ruth has worked as a reviewer, freelance journalist and completed a novel-in-verse as part of an Australian Poetry residency  The Sunset Club, which was highly commended in the Anne Elder category in 2014. She is also the author of Blackout (Audible Australia) and The Sound (2025) with Blackstone USA. She is represented by the boutique LA agency for bestselling international authors, The Story Factory. She has a PhD from Curtin University and works as a sessional academic, workshop facilitator and manuscript assessor. 

Specialises in: 

  • Crime fiction 
  • Memoir (non-fiction)  
  • Horror 
  • Literary fiction 
  • Novel in verse 
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