Marymount Manhattan College Junior Emma Eden Ramos Authors The Realm of the Lost

“…Ramos offers the right balance of plot and description…allowing the suspense and tension to build to the twist,” assesses one of the top blogging critics Serena M. Agusto-Cox Agusto-Cox in her October review ofThe Realm of the Lost on her Savvy Verse & Wit blog:www.saavyverseandwit.com.

Already this Marymount Manhattan College junior has been published several times over. Three Women: A Poetic Triptych and Selected Poems(Heavy Hands Ink, 2011), Ramos’ first poetry chapbook, was shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Literary Award in Poetry. Ramos’ novelette, Where the Children Play, is included in Resilience: Stories, Poems, Essays, Words for LGBT Teens, edited by Eric Nguyen. Her short stories have appeared in Stories for Children Magazine, The Storyteller Tymes, BlazeVOX Journal, and other journals. 

“Being a psychology major in a great liberal arts school like Marymount Manhattan College has been beneficial. Psychology has given me good insight into how personalities are created and why people do what they do – both keys to building characters. Through my English courses, new worlds and perspectives opened as I read novels I probably would not otherwise have,”explains Ramos. She continues, “It was during my philosophy class that I conceived of The Realm of the Lost. It explores the concept of what happens when a person dies before his or her allotted death date.”

Ramos is grateful to Marymount Manhattan College faculty, with a special mention to Philosophy Professor Carrie-Ann Biondi (“she is one of most helpful and supportive cheerleaders and has read almost everything I’ve written”) and Communication Arts Professor David Linton who read her first short story, which was also Ramos’ first published work (“he gave helpful and detailed pointers; it was a nice surprise”).

Published: October 19, 2012