Tag: Joanna Ruocco

  • Short Story Prize 2017: “Monument” by Kristen Gleason

    Short Story Prize 2017: “Monument” by Kristen Gleason

    Joanna Ruocco on “Monument,” winner of the 2017 Heavy Feather Story Prize: “A room in my apartment has windows all around (a box of glass), and the weird shining black-green of magnolia leaves presses up to the glass (a box in black-green). I read ‘Monument’ in that room and traveled from my own black-green world…

  • “To Escape to Something Beyond the World”: Matt Weinkam Interviews Joanna Ruocco

    “To Escape to Something Beyond the World”: Matt Weinkam Interviews Joanna Ruocco

    Joanna Ruocco has been busy. In the last five years, she has written five books, including A Compendium of Domestic Incidents, which won the 2009 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Contest, and Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize judged by Ben Marcus. She published stories in Conjunctions,…