Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| To the Moon and Back | 2025 | Buy |
Eliana Ramage is a Cherokee Nation citizen and Nashville native who spent over a decade writing her first novel. She graduated from Dartmouth College, earned an MA from Bar-Ilan University, and completed her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2018. Before her novel’s publication, her short fiction and essays appeared in The Baltimore Review, the Beloit Fiction Journal, and the anthology All the Women in My Family Sing.
Her debut novel, To the Moon and Back (2025), was published by Avid Reader Press and selected as a Reese’s Book Club pick. The book follows Steph Harper, a young Cherokee woman determined to join NASA and go to the moon. Spanning from 1987 to 2027, it traces Steph’s life alongside three women closest to her: her artist sister Kayla, her college girlfriend Della, and their mother Hannah. The story grew from a friend’s remark that if a member of their tribal nation became an astronaut, “that too would be part of the story of your people.”