Mae Ramirez
is a pocha-poet and mother originally from Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from California State University Long Beach and is currently working on a full-length manuscript. She has been awarded the Writing Salon Scholarship, the Gerald Locklin Writing Prize, and was a finalist in the 2018 Not a Cult Press Poetry competition. She is a recipient of the 2020 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and the 2021 San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Press Literary Award. In 2021 she was a writer-in-residence at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, Colorado. Her work has appeared in Frontier Poetry, The Acentos Review, and American Mustard. She currently resides in Western Massachusetts.
Author photo by Lisa Factora-Borchers
