2016 Jack Straw Writer Ramon Isao‘s short stories combine obsession, fear, and disaster with humor and absurdity. He talks with program Curator Karen Finneyfrock about his fascination with worst-case scenarios, his early realization that he could be a writer, and how he knows a story is finished. “I know that I’m done with them when I want them out of my life! Like, they’ve got to go.”

Music by Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, produced as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.