Ruffner's work is included in the following books.
(Note: all exhibition catalogues are listed under Solo and Group Exhibitions)
Return to the Viewer; Selected Art Reviews, Matthew Kangas, 2011
Secrets of Self-Starters, 48 Amazing Stories to Ignite the Self-Starter in You, Dr. Julie Miller, 2011
Outside the Ordinary–2009, Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection, Amy Miller Dehan, 2009
Penland Book of Glass, Lark Books, 2009
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2007
Contemporary Glass Art, Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, 2006
500 Glass Objects, Lark Books, 2006
25 Years of New Glass Review, Tina Oldknow, 2005
Sculpture, Glass and American Museums, Martha Drexler Lynn, 2005
American Studio Glass, Martha Drexler Lynn, 2004
Artful Jesters, Nicholas Roukes, Ten Speed Press, 2004
Through American Eyes, Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art, 2003
International Glass Art, by Richard Yelle, 2003
Formed by Fire, B.S. Dunham, 2003
Women in Glass, Lucartha Kohler, 2003
The Sculpture Reference, Arthur Williams, 2002
Sculpture Beginnings, Arthur Williams, 2002
Contemporary lampworking: a Practical Guide to Shaping Glass, Scott Bandhu Dunham, 2002
Contemporary Glass: Color, Light, and Form, 2001
Object Lessons, Beauty and Meaning in Art, The Guild, 2001
Artists in Their Gardens, by Valerie Easton, Sasquatch Press Seattle, WA, 2001
Glass Art from Urban glass, Richard Yelle, NYC, 2000
Secrets of Aromatic Jewelry, by Annabelle Green, Flammerion, France, 1998
Koganezaki Glass Museum: Contemporary Glass Collection, with an introduction by Kyohei Fujita. Koganezaki Crystal Park, Komomura, Japan, 1997
Contemporary Lampworking, Bandhu Scott Dunham, Salusa Glassworks, Prescott, AZ, 1997
Neuropsychology: The Neural Bases of Mental Function, by Marie Banich. Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1997
Glass Art, Peter Layton, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1996
Pilchuck: A Glass School, Tina Oldknow, Pilchuck Glass School in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1996
Why Not?: The Art of Ginny Ruffner, Bonnie J. Miller with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto. Tacoma Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1995
Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest, MidMarch Arts Press, 1993
Material Vision: Image and Object, Matthew Kangas, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, 1993
Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, Lloyd Herman, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, 1992
A Field Guide to Seattle's Public Art, Seattle Art Commission, Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 1992
Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work, Bonnie J. Miller, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1991
The Beauty of Contemporary Glass, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Japan, 1990
Prism of Fantasy - From the Glass Collection of Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, 1990
Artists at Work, Susan Biskeborn, Alaska Northwest Books, 1990
Contemporary Glass, Dan Klein, Rizzoli Publishers Inc., New York, NY, 1989
Expressions en Verre, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1989
Glass Fantasia from Art Nouveau to the Present Day, Kyoto-shoin Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1989
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass, Susanne K. Frantz, Harry Abrams, New York, NY, 1988
Contemporary American Craft Art, Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, New York, NY, 1987