Anna-Marie McLemore
Anna-Marie McLemore grew up in a Mexican American family, and she writes her YA books from that space. She attended the University of Southern California on a Trustee Scholarship. A Lambda Literary Fellow, her work has been featured by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, CRATE Literary Magazine's
cratelit,
Camera Obscura's Bridge the Gap Series, and
The Portland Review. She is the author of
The Weight of Feathers, a 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist
, When the Moon Was Ours, a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book, and
Wild Beauty.
Bustle calls her latest novel,
Blanca & Roaja, "the Latinx 'Swan Lake' retelling you've always wanted." She lives in Sacramento, California.
Review and excerpt on BustleBuy Blanca & Roja