We are a matriarchal publishing house—a sacred press for women who write as ritual, as reclamation, as remembrance.

Welcome to Femina.

We believe that books can be spells, that publishing can be holy, and that storytelling is a form of soul retrieval.

Our words have always been dangerous.

There are stories the world tried to erase—books that were never written, voices that were never heard, truths that were buried for centuries. 

Femina Books was born from a longing to reclaim those voices.

“Femina” used to be a derogatory label, scratched alongside the texts known to be penned by a woman. This label deemed her words less than, a word of caution for those who might otherwise pay attention to the wisdom unearthed inside its pages. No matter the practice of overwriting, where men would take the ideas of women and rewrite them—thereby claiming them—for a male audience. Or even the more blatant forms of plagiarism—like F. Scott Fitzgerald stealing Zelda’s ideas and thoughts and words, lifting them like they were his own.

Our words have always been dangerous.

This is how men got rich off the witch trials, how they took our magic and twisted it for their gain.
Our knowing has always been a threat—the fear of them losing their power leading them to strip us of our own.

This is why this space exists. Why we’re starting this movement housed in the organizational shape of a publishing press. We’re intentionally small. Intentionally built as a sacred circle. The Goddess is our North Star, liberation for all is our foundation, and our intuition the road map for what’s next. 

Our words have always been dangerous, but we're done with swallowing them for fear of retaliation, and we're inviting you to join us.

The flames mean nothing when compared to the intentional forgetting of how story weaves a tale of memory for us—how it points us to our Knowing within and strengthens our resolve.
This is what wel focus on here: the extrication of healing through story.

Because eventually, we always remember.

Eventually, we return, reclaiming the label of Femina as one of power and liberation.
We look each other in the eye and lean in and whisper, “do you remember too?”

Our words have always been dangerous. But it’s because as women, we are the warning. The memory.

Our Core Values:

  • Relational over transactional: Instead of focusing solely on profit or mass production, we prioritize connection—between writer and reader, editor and author, story and soul.

  • Process as sacred: The creative process is honored as a cyclical, intuitive unfolding, not a linear race to meet deadlines. Because of this, we will have built in rest periods, creative sabbaticals, and seasonal rhythms aligned with the Earth.

  • Voice as power: We seek to amplify the voices of women, femmes, queer folks, and marginalized storytellers—especially those carrying ancestral wisdom or channeling the mythic, mystical, and liminal.

Our Authors

Elora Ramirez
Founder of Femina Books

Elora Ramirez is a story coach, author, and gatherer of creative bones. She lives in Round Rock, Texas with her husband and their little lion man.

For her, it’s always been about story. Every single thing she’s ever done has the hint of narrative. Writing stories as spells for healing, leading others in the excavation of their own story-bones, listening for the whisper of a beginning for the next one she’s supposed to share, and inhaling as many books as physically possible is basically how she spends her days.

She’s also addicted to coffee, secretly loves karaoke, cannot remain still when someone plays a Beyonce track, sending voice memos and keeping track of the eleventy-million plot ideas she has running through her mind.

Her books are part of Femina’s backlist, and she’s working on her follow-up to Women are a Dangerous Magic as well as a series of romance novellas.

Magdalena Lyonne

Intentionally writing under a pen name, Magdalena keeps her identity close to her chest (so no, you won’t ever see her face).

However, her words are laced with a brazen openness. Her poems taste like prophecy and perfume and feel like liturgies written in lipstick. Her work walks the line between prayer and profanity, reminding us that the divine was never meant to be distant.

Through her poetry, Magdalena calls upon archetypes of the divine feminine, excavating desire, grief, and power with irreverent grace. She believes words are a form of resurrection—every poem, a small act of devotion disguised as rebellion.

Her first book The Mother Vein will be released in February.
When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found arguing with her muses, making offerings to the moon, or laughing at the absurdity of being human—again.

Melissa Hawks

Melissa loves telling stories that make you feel things and invite you to dig a little deeper to reconnect with yourself, spirit, and the world around you. Her words call to the wild within you to be free.

She takes herself way too seriously and is learning how to relinquish control and play more. She leads a life that can be called monastic or hedonistic depending on the day and has been described as “self-organizing chaos (ish),” “too curious,” and once “a force of nature.”

Her book Eat the Shadow was the inaugural publication for Femina Books and was published in October of 2025.