About

Sara Ramey writes strange fiction in Oklahoma. She received an MFA from the University of Arkansas and a Sturgis International Fellowship to live and write in Dublin. Her fiction can be found in Easy Street’s anthology, among other places, and her Arabic co-translations recently appeared in Words Without Borders and On the Seawall. A native of southern Arizona, she is obsessed with water, transformations, and mythological creatures.
Short Stories
Sea Change – Portal 10, an Easy Street anthology, July 2019
The Ceiling of the Porch is Blue – Porter House Review, June 2019
Spiritual Possessions (And Their Owners) – The Madison Review, Spring 2018
Translations
from Vienna – co-translated with Nicole Fares for On the Seawall, October 2020
Vienna – co-translated with Nicole Fares for Words Without Borders, October 2019
Fellowships & Honors
Sturgis International Fellow (Dublin, Ireland) – 2019
Black Warrior Review fiction contest finalist – 2019
Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction finalist – 2019
Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Fiction, selected by Aurelie Sheehan – 2018
Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction, selected by Alix Ohlin – 2018
Easy Street Portal Prize in Speculative Fiction finalist – 2018
Book Reviews
World Literature Today
Pearls on a Branch by Najla Khoury, trans. Inea Bushnaq
Iraq +100 ed. Hassan Blasim
Praise for the Women of the Family by Mahmoud Shukair
Palestine +100 ed. Hassan Blasim
The Arkansas International
The New Order by Karen Bender
The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte, trans. Jenny McPhee
Moonbath by Yanick Lahens, trans. Emily Gogolak
Palaces by Simon Jacobs
Missives from the Green Campaign by David Armstrong
Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese, trans. Ann Goldstein
The Icelandic Cure by J.D. Moyer
The Science of Lost Futures by Ryan Habermeyer
The Iconoclast’s Journal by Terry Griggs
For Isabel: A Mandala by Antonio Tabucchi, trans. Elizabeth Harris
An Untouched House by Willem Frederik Hermans, trans. David Colmer
Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else by C. D. Rose
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker