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Tour Dates
April 14 – Women and Children First, Chicago, IL
April 15 – Books & Books, Miami, FL
April 18-19 – LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA
April 20 – McNally Jackson, Seaport, New York, NY
April 22 – Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
April 23 – Julia de Burgos Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
April 30 – Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, “Made Local,” Pittsburgh, PA
May 30 – PGH Book Fest, Pittsburgh, PA
Adriana E. Ramírez is an award-winning American writer of Mexican and Colombian origin, as well as a critic, columnist, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh.
She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016). From 2016-2020 she served as Critic-at-Large for the Los Angeles Times Book Section. She is the recipient of the Pittsburgh Foundation’s 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award.
Ramírez has won local and national awards for her work as a columnist and book critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she the edits of InReview and serves as a member of the editorial board.
Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape), the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, PENAmerica, and Literary Hub. She used to write 45-word book reviews for People Magazine.
She and novelist Angie Cruz founded Aster(ix) Journal, a literary journal giving voice to the censored and the marginalized.
Ramírez is the author of poetry collection The Swallows (Blue Sketch Press 2016) and co-editor of the anthology In the Shadow of the Mic (Bridge & Tunnel Books 2020). She was the co-host of the 2021-2022 City of Asylum/Aster(ix) Journal podcast, Charla Cultural.
Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner.
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Contact
Adriana E. Ramírez is currently represented by Bonnie Nadell at the Hill Nadell Literary Agency.
For publicity queries about The Violence, please email Paul Samuelson.
For marketing queries about The Violence, please email Mark Galarrita.
To comment on her column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, please email letters[at]post-gazette[dot]com. To write the author directly, please email writer[at]aeramirez[dot]com (note: these emails are screened).