Marilyn Isabel Ramirez is a fiction writer from Southern California. She is the winner of the Epiphany Literary Journal 2024 Breakout! Writers Prize. Her stories have appeared in ¡Pa'lante!, The Plentitudes, Press Pause Press, and elsewhere. She has been a Harriet Williams Emerging Writer awardee by Literary Women Long Beach. Marilyn is the Fiction Editor for The Plentitudes, an international literary magazine based in New York. Marilyn is currently working on a collection of short stories that contemplate familismo, the body, intergenerational trauma, Mexican Catholicism, and relationships.