Eliana Ramage is an instructor at The Porch, our beloved local writing nonprofit. She’s also a Cherokee Nation citizen, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and now a novelist. To the Moon and Back is about a woman who’s determined to become the first Cherkoee astronaut, but her ambitious future is impossible to separate from a violent past. We love to humanize the moon (and the man in it) as a way of keeping it close, and Ramage’s novel has that same tender grip.
Best Debut Novel
'To the Moon and Back' by Eliana Ramage
