Mae Ramirez
is a pocha-poet and mother from Los Angeles. Her poetry manuscript Moonward Delirium was chosen as a runner-up for the 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and a semifinalist for the 2022 Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry. 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 Huizache, Frontier Poetry, and The Acentos Review. She holds an MFA from California State University Long Beach and is a children’s librarian.
Author photo by Lisa Factora-Borchers
