Eliana Ramage holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she lives in Nashville with her family. To the Moon and Back is her first novel.

"Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time and space--I loved it all." --Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age

"To the Moon and Back is a singular, sonorous, wholehearted novel that you'll want to devour and savor at once. Eliana Ramage is a dynamite writer--every sentence positively shimmers." --Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

"A story of decisions; right, wrong and everything in between, with characters so perfectly rendered that you'll want to hug them or give them a shake. An immersive and exciting debut."--Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers

"A novel that has the generosity to be many things--bittersweet, thrillingly perceptive, enormously funny. To the Moon and Back is a wonderful reckoning with the true price of an at-any-cost ambition and a powerful story about the mixture of combativeness, compromise and love that forms the heart of a family." --Kaliane Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry of Time

"To the Moon and Back simply soars. Eliana Ramage has given us a brilliant, faceted, warm-hearted novel, with characters to love and truly root for, and pages that seem to turn themselves." --Sarah Thankam Matthews, author of All This Could Be Different

"To the Moon and Back is a passionate and compulsively readable novel. Dare I say, a stellar debut." --Margot Livesey, author of The Road to Belhaven

"Eliana Ramage's To the Moon and Back is a captivating debut about family, queer identity, love, career and heritage. This novel has something for everyone." --De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills and Decent People

"A John Irving-esque tragicomic saga... This author is as ambitious as her protagonist: There are three novels worth of material here, all good. The moon or bust!" --Kirkus Review (starred review)

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Pub date: 2025-09-02

Length: 448 pages