This week we visit Gerry Wilson in Jackson, Mississippi.
A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in the red clay hills of the north that she writes about in her debut novel, THAT PINSON GIRL, released by Regal House Publishing in February 2024. A story, “Tell Me Anything,” appeared in Persimmon Tree in June 2024. Another story, “A Language of Their Own,” was runner-up for The Porch Fiction Prize 2024. “Life Line” was a finalist in decembermagazine’s Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction and was published in december in the spring of 2023. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous other journals. Gerry is a 2025 Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship recipient.
Gerry has a new Substack publication, “Stories I’m Old Enough to Tell,” where she writes—well—basically whatever is on her mind, but mostly about her writing journey.
For more about Gerry: gerrywilson.com
Gerry's Books on the Bed:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Can't Quit You, Baby by Ellen Douglas
Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Light in August by William Faulkner
A Curtain of Green & Other Stories by Eudora Welty
Matt's Gifts for Gerry:
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Room Swept Home by Remica Bingham-Risher
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