Adriana E. Ramírez is an American writer and critic of Mexican and Colombian descent. Her writing addresses the history and culture of violence in Colombia, Mexico, and the United States.[1]

In 2015, she won the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize for Dead Boys.[2] The manuscript was subsequently published as Dead Boys: A Memoir in 2016 by Little A, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, was acquired by Scribner and is forthcoming.[3] In 2019, she received a grant of $10,000 from investing in professional artists, a joint project of the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments; she also received that year's established artist Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award from the Pittsburgh Foundation.[4] The grant describes The Violence as "a book on the history of violence in the Americas, from Pittsburgh to Colombia and back, blending family oral histories with larger national narratives."[5]

She co-founded the literary journal Aster(ix) with Angie Cruz in 2013 and continues to serve as publisher.[6] Beginning in 2016, she served as a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times.[7] She competed on Jeopardy! in 2022, an experience she subsequently wrote about for The Atlantic.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Meet Literary Artist Adriana Ramirez". Pittsburgh Foundation. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "ADRIANA E. RAMÍREZ TAKES FIRST ANNUAL $10,000 PEN/FUSION PRIZE FOR DEAD BOYS". PEN.org. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "LA Times Festival of Books 2019". LA Times Festival of Books. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Meet Literary Artist Adriana Ramirez". The Pittsburgh Foundation. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "Foundations invest $169,000 in Pittsburgh-based professional artists". The Pittsburgh Foundation. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "About Aster(ix)". Asterix. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Kellogg, Carolyn. "Introducing the L.A. Times Critics-at-Large". LA Times. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  8. ↑ Ramírez, Adriana E. "Everyone Loses on Jeopardy Eventually: I did it, and I feel great". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
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