Reeves holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, and her novella Badlands won the 2006 Miami University Press Novella Contest and was published in 2007. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review and Ontario Review. Reeves lives near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children. She's now at work on a novel-in-stories set in post-World War I Italy.