Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Ramona Reeves

Hometown: Mobile, AL Lives in: Austin, TX

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  • Email: ramona.reeves@gmail.com

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About Ramona Reeves

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction

Available for: Readings, Workshops, In Person, Remote

Bio: Ramona Reeves won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road, The Southampton Review, Pembroke, New South, The Rumpus, Bayou Magazine, Texas Highways and others. She …Read More teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and has taught classes for for writing organizations and given craft talks at colleges and universities. She is currently completing her second book, a novel.

Works: Books – It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 (paperback, 2023)
Short Stories – The Southampton Review, Bayou Magazine, Ninth Letter, Pembroke, Jabberwock Review, Yalobusha Review, Ponder Review, New …Read More South, Rougarou, and others
Essays/Creative Nonfiction – Superstition Review, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly (publication of the Community of Writers), Women Writers/Women’s Books, Barely South Review, and Texas Highways

Awards: 2024 San Ysidro Ranch Writers Residency (invitation-only residency)
2023 Sergio Troncoso Best First Book of Fiction (Texas Institute of Letters)
2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
2018 Community of Writers Conference Scholarship
2018 Nancy D. Hargrove …Read More Editors’ Prize (Jabberwock Review)

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