Adriana E. Ramírez is a writer, critic, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She is the winner of the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer's Prize, a former critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times's Book Section, and the cofounder of Aster(ix) Journal. Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, People, ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape), LitHub, Guernica, Nerve, and elsewhere. She once lost terribly on Jeopardy!.