Ruth Margraff has been called a leader in America’s operatic avant-garde. She is best known in the US for her collaborations with the late composer Fred Ho with whom she wrote six martial arts operas for the Apollo, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, LaMama and several national tours. She writes and performs regularly with her Café Antarsia Ensemble. She has been a New Dramatist and Chicago Dramatist member and is Associate Professor/Chair of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.