Vanessa Ramos

Vanessa Ramos was born in Texas and raised in Minnesota. She has dreamt about being many things: an astronomer, a paranormal investigator, a museum educator, an art historian, a curiosities curator, a paleontologist, and even an actress, but a writer is what she became. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Education from Hamline University. She has received awards, fellowships, and grants in support of her writing from the Texas Institute of Letters and The University of Texas, The...See more

Vanessa Ramos was born in Texas and raised in Minnesota. She has dreamt about being many things: an astronomer, a paranormal investigator, a museum educator, an art historian, a curiosities curator, a paleontologist, and even an actress, but a writer is what she became. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Education from Hamline University. She has received awards, fellowships, and grants in support of her writing from the Texas Institute of Letters and The University of Texas, The Loft Literary Center and The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She lives and teaches in the Twin Cities. See less