Ru Marshall

Ru Marshall is an American writer, artist and critic.

As a visual artist, they have exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Marshall's first novel, A Separate Reality, was published in 2006 by Carrol & Graf and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. They are currently at work on a biography of Carlos Castaneda.

Marshall was born in Eugene, Oregon to the journalists Maxine and Jonathan Marshall, and was named after his great-uncle, the wilderness activist Robert Marshall. They grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and now live in New York City.