{"id":140,"date":"2015-07-21T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:28:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"1465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-scaled.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3821-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgewrightphotography.co.uk\/#1\">George Wright<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruby studied sculpture, worked at the BBC and took a foray into printmaking before embarking on a career in picture books. Her first two Author\/Illustrator books were published by Rocket Bird Books and she has since worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingeyebooks.com\/book\/today\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/flyingeyebooks.com\">Flying Eye<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dk.com\/uk\/book\/9780241720608-good-bits\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dk.com\/uk\/book\/9780241720608-good-bits\/\">Dorling Kindersley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designfortoday.co.uk\/shop\/amazing-fish-by-ruby-wright\">Design for Today<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andersenpress.co.uk\/books\/a-crinkled-screaming-thing\/\">Andersen Press<\/a>. In the past two years her work has been shortlisted twice for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangebeakstudio.com\/shirley-hughes-sketchbook-award\">Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award<\/a>, nominated for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klausfluggeprize.co.uk\/longlist-2024\/\">Klaus Flugge Prize<\/a> and shortlisted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/booksaremybag.com\/indiebookawards\/shortlist\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/booksaremybag.com\/indiebookawards\/shortlist\">Indie Book Awards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockport.gov.uk\/2026-childrens-book-awards-shortlist\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.stockport.gov.uk\/2026-childrens-book-awards-shortlist\">Stockport Children&#8217;s Book Award<\/a>. She regularly delivers school and literature festival talks and mentors early-career illustrators. Ruby is represented by Jodie Hodges at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedagents.co.uk\/talent\/ruby-wright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United Agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-1024x597.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-300x175.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-768x448.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-1536x896.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Invisible-Dogs-At-Playtime-2048x1194.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/?page_id=1367\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/?page_id=1367\">More about Ruby here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruby studied sculpture, worked at the BBC and took a foray into printmaking before embarking on a career in picture books. Her first two Author\/Illustrator books were published by Rocket Bird Books and she has since worked with Flying Eye, Dorling Kindersley, Design for Today and Andersen Press. In the past two years her work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rubywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}