Ruth Taylor (10 January 1961 – 18 February 2006) was a Canadian poet, editor and college teacher.
Taylor was the author of three collections of poetry: The Drawing Board (1988); Dragon Papers (1994), a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry; and Comet Wine (2007), published posthumously.
The language in these and most of Taylor"s poems is one of a heightened conversation, they are structurally a fusion of the formal and the contemporary.
Taylor taught English literature at John Abbott College from 1986 to 2006.
She gained notoriety as a member of the informal Lakeshore Poets: She died in February 2006, shortly after completing Comet Wine.