It also was chosen for YALSA's 2016 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults list. Morris Debut Award Finalist in 2016 and received a starred review from Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. It deals with themes of discrimination and marginalization in a magical-realist story about black magic, and includes a generational feud between Mexican-American and Romani rival families. Their debut young adult novel, The Weight of Feathers, was published in 2015 by Thomas Dunne Books. McLemore was named a Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow in 2011. They cite Laura Esquivel's novel Like Water for Chocolate as one of the reasons they started writing and names Carla Trujillo, Malinda Lo, Isabel Allende, and Federico García Lorca as some of their influences. McLemore describes their work as inspired by the fairytales and stories they grew up with and their own background, which is why many of their novels feature magical-realist themes, queer characters, and Spanish and French language. McLemore themself is nonbinary and bigender, using singular they pronouns.

McLemore is a queer Latine, which they cite as one of the reasons why they write inclusive, queer, Latinx casts.

AwardĪnna-Marie McLemore is a Mexican-American author of young adult fiction magical realism, best known for their Stonewall Honor-winning novel When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty, and The Weight of Feathers. When the Moon Was Ours, The Weight of Feathers, Wild Beauty

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