Adriana E. Ramírez

"The Violence My Family's Colombian War" is a family memoir about civil war, personal betrayal, and what loves and lives are possible in a time and place of unimaginable violence.

Winner of the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize What can we learn from the haunting tragedy of a young boy gunned down by a vengeful loan shark, or from a camouflaged corpse washed up on a beach, or from nine bodies hanging from a bridge?

Adriana E. Ramírez takes on ex-boyfriends, the complex conversations between dogs and birds, as well as the scars of Junior High=. Her poetry is about migration, about the ways, like swallows, circumstances and weather can drive a person quite south.