Adriana E. Ramírez is a writer, critic, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She is the author of "The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War" (Scribner, 2026), the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize-winning "Dead Boys" (Little A, 2016), and "The Swallows: Poems" (Blue Sketch Press, 2016).

Ramírez is also a former critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times’s Book Section and a former columnist and books editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is the cofounder of Aster(ix) Journal with Angie Cruz. Her writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, People Magazine, and elsewhere. She once lost terribly on Jeopardy!.