Gerry Wilson is the author of a literary historical novel, That Pinson Girl  (Regal House Publishing), and a short story collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories (Press 53). Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Halfway Down the Stairs, Persimmon Tree, and December magazine. She was a recipient of a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Artist Fellowship in 2025.

A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry’s “native soil” is the beautiful but harsh red clay hills of the north. Deeply influenced by that place and by Mississippi authors William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, she often draws on her roots and family myths in her fiction, but she is also attracted to coastal landscapes—thus the setting for the stories in Storm Warning—where she has found mystery and solace since she was a child.

Like many young women of her generation, Gerry married right after college, and until her first marriage ended, she was a stay-at-home mom to four sons. At fifty, she completed a master’s degree in English, and around that time, she published her first short story. For more than twenty years, she taught English and creative writing to high school students. She loves staying in touch with students who seem to remember fondly their reading and writing experiences in her classes. She considers becoming an author her “third act.”

Gerry lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband, Austin Wilson, a poet and retired Millsaps College professor.