Ruth Lepson is the author of Dreaming in Color. She is also the poet-in-res at New England Conservatory of Music, and teaches at the Art Institute of Boston. In the fall also she taught Poetry and Art at the Museum School. Lepson edited an anthology of poems from Sojourner, to be published by the University of Illinois.

In 2002, Lepson wrote a chapbook of prose poems based upon dreams. She has poetry in AGNI and many other periodicals. She has read on "All Things Considered" and many other places, including the Boston Poets Conference, July 2000. She also organized poetry readings for Oxfam America, taught in poets-in-schools program in MA, was poet-in-res at Bentley College,and taught at both the ennedy School of Govt and Boston College.