Ruth Steinberg is the author of A Certain Frame of Reference, poems about her experiences as a child refugee from Hitler’s Vienna, and the implications and consequences of her history. A Step in Time continued her exploration of her past, and broadened her outlook to include considerations of politics, travel and observations of New Yorkers from a Manhattan delicatessen. She also published Word Play, a chapbook of her humorous verse. She is a former editor of two semi-technical magazines, and before her retirement was the Director of Technical Publication at a telecommunications R&D company.