Ramona Reeves’ interlinked story collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and is set in Mobile, Alabama, where she grew up.

She has been awarded an AROHO fellowship, a residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a scholarship from Community of Writers, and the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize. Ramona also has served as an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press.

Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review, Bayou Magazine, Pembroke, Superstition Review, Texas Highways and others.

For more about Ramona, visit her website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

In today’s conversation, we’ll discuss the challenges and joys that are part of writing short stories.