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Anna-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.

McLemore is a queer Latine, which they cite as one of the reasons why they write inclusive, queer, Latinx casts. Their husband is transgender. McLemore themself is nonbinary and bigender, using singular they pronouns.

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. 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.