Ruth Ingram was a psychiatric Social Worker and subsequently a lecturer in mental health and group dynamics at Southampton University and subsequently the University of the South Bank. She did a part-time course in screen printing, textiles and embroidery, and for many years exhibited textiles in various small galleries together with colleagues, and subsequently in her own home in support of Greenpeace and Oxfam. Concurrently she attended the Poetry School London for several years . Her translations from German poetry have been published by Modern Poetry in Translation, the Fenland Reed, Kites, and Hearing Eye. She organizes a translation workshop in her own home (translating from French and German) on a bi-monthly basis which has been running for 15 years. There is no fee, but prospective members are asked too submit 3 or 4 poems in their translation from either French or German. The group has produced two anthologies: a Over the Watera and a Across Frontiersa both available from the Poetry Library at the South Bank London.