Welcome to Femina.
A creative sanctuary where we honor writing as ritual, publishing as devotion, and women’s stories as vessels of remembrance. At Femina, we believe books are spells, publishing is holy work, and storytelling is one of the deepest forms of soul retrieval. Our mission is not to argue for the value of women’s voices but to restore them to their rightful throne.
Why Femina was Born:
Throughout history, countless women’s stories were dismissed, overwritten, or claimed by others. The word Femina itself was once used as a warning—a mark scribbled beside texts penned by women, signaling that her voice was lesser.
We choose to reclaim that word.
Femina stands for the return of the feminine voice: sovereign, creative, embodied, and undeniable. Our work is rooted in the remembrance that women’s stories have always been powerful; not because of their threat, but because of their transformative truth.
Our Vision:
We see ourselves as more than a publishing press. Instead, we’re building a circle where women can gather to write, remember, and ignite their full selves into being. We publish work that carries lineage, intuition, myth, and the sacred feminine — stories that shift culture by their resonance.
Our guiding principles are simple:
✨ The Goddess is our North Star.
✨ Liberation is our foundation.
✨ Intuition leads the way.
This also means we honor the cycles of creation: the pauses, the deep listening, and the bursts of clarity. We know and understand that the feminine does not move in straight lines.
What We Hold:
Storytelling is how we remember what has been forgotten. It is how we stitch back the threads of our lineage—how women reclaim the wisdom long buried beneath silence, expectation, or erasure.
We focus on the healing that emerges through story — not as catharsis alone, but as reclamation, integration, and power.
At Femina, we lean close and ask one another: “Do you remember too? Because the return, and the awakening, always begins with a single spark of recognition.
Our Core Values:
Relational over transactional: We prioritize connection between writer and reader, author and editor, story and soul over mass production or profit-driven pressure. This means our publishing calendar will be slower than most, and we lean into this with care.
Process as sacred: We honor creative cycles as they unfold. This means rest is built into our structure: seasonal rhythms, intuitive pacing, and space for deep listening.
Voice as power: We amplify the stories of women, femmes, queer voices, and marginalized storytellers — especially those carrying ancestral wisdom, mythic resonance, or connection to the liminal and mystical.
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
Pen name for Elora Ramirez’ poetry
Intentionally writing under a pen name, Magdalena’s 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 2026.
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.