Nonieqa Ramos

NoNieqa Ramos is an educator and author who 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 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. ​ In February 2024, Inkyard Press will release NoNieqa's short story EVERMORE, a queer retelling of THE RAVEN, in a SFF YA anthology called RELIT: 16 LATINX REMIXES OF CLASSIC STORIES. Lerner Books will release NoNieqa's first picture book bio, Booklist-starred THE TRES HERMANAS: A SISTERHOOD of the COMMON GOOD, illustrated by Nicole Medina. In September 2024, Lerner will release NoNieqa's YA novel, THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED. Check out NoNieqa's website to learn more about their work.