Ru Marshall

Ru Marshall is an American writer, artist and critic.

As a visual artist, they have exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. Marshall's first novel, A Separate Reality, was published in 2006 by Carrol & Graf and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction. American Trickster, their long awaited biography of Carlos Castaneda, will be released by OR Books in May 2026.

Marshall was born in Eugene, Oregon to the journalists Maxine and Jonathan Marshall, and was named after his great-uncle, the wilderness activist Robert Marshall. They grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and now live in New York City.