Office phone: 505 277-6262
rdemerson@unm.edu

Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico.

She received her degree in Media Arts in 1997 from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) in 2015 from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

She has worked as a professional cinematographer, writer, and editor for over thirty years and is currently working on her eighth and ninth film project, Crossing the Line and Through Her Lens.

She is an Emmy nominee, a Sundance Native Lab Fellow, a Time-Warner Storyteller Fellow, a Tribeca All-Access Grantee and a WGBH Producer Fellow.

Ramona just released her second novel, Exposure, the follow-up to her debut novel Shutter, which was published by Soho Press in 2022 and longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the PEN Hemingway, PEN Open Book and Edgar Awards among others.

She currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she and her husband/producer, Kelly Byars run their production company Reel Indian Pictures.

Ramona is also an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico in the department of Film and Digital Arts.