Ruth has been writing Perl for 23 years, and attending Perl conferences for the last ten years, speaking at all but one of the in-person conferences. She is a big fan of DBIx::Class, Dancer2, and Agile programming without all the ceremonies. Ruth is a wife, writer, cook, full-time RVer, accidental trans activist, autoharpist, and mommy to the cutest dog you will ever meet.