Nonieqa Ramos

NoNieqa Ramos is an educator and author who wrote THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED US, which has been longlisted for the Federico Erebia Intersectionality Award in YA Literature and is a finalist for Jacqueline Woodson LGBTQ+ Award in Children's/YA Literature.

They also wrote THE DISTURBED GIRL’S DICTIONARY, a 2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens and a 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection. The Virginia Center for the Book selected their pb debut YOUR MAMA, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara, as Virginia’s GREAT READ for 2021 highlighted by the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book at the National Book Festival. YOUR MAMA was a School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2021, a Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2021, a 2022 ALA Rise Feminist Book Selection, and a National Council of English Books Notable Poetry Book.Their pb BEAUTY WOKE, illustrated by Paola Escobar, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2022, a Chicago Public Library and New York Public Library Best Book of 2022, and a Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2023. Their PB HAIR STORY will be relased in paperback in 2025.

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The Kirkus-starred SFF YA anthology RELIT: 16 LATINX REMIXES OF CLASSIC STORIES contains NoNieqa's short story EVERMORE, a queer retelling of THE RAVEN. Lerner will release a Spanish language version of their picture book bio, Booklist-starred THE TRES HERMANAS: A SISTERHOOD of the COMMON GOOD, illustrated by Nicole Medina in August 2025.

Check out NoNieqa's website to learn more about their work.