Ona Gritz
AUTHOR

Ona Gritz

Biographies & Memoirs | Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children. Her new memoir, Everywhere I Look, won the Pencraft Best Book Award in Nonfiction - Memoir, the Readers’ Choice Gold Award for Best Adult Book, the Independent Author Award in New Nonfiction, the Independent Author Award in True Crime, and is an Independent Book Review 2024 Must-Read. Ona’s nonfiction has appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Utne Reader, Brevity, Parents, The Rumpus, and River Teeth. Among her recent honors are two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays and a Best Life Story in Salon. Ona’s poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 Project and has received many other honors for her poems. Ona’s 2023 novel for children, August Or Forever, was a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. The Space You Left Behind, Ona’s first young adult novel, written in verse, has just been released from West 44 Books and featured in The Children's Book Council’s Hot Off the Press roundup of anticipated best sellers. Her second YA verse novel, Take a Sad Song, soon to be released from West 44 Books, earned a starred Kirkus review.
Read more Read less
You're getting a free audiobook


You're getting a free audiobook.

$14.95 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Try for $0.00

Best Sellers

Product List
  • Everywhere I Look Audiobook By Ona Gritz cover art

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • On the Whole Audiobook By Ona Gritz cover art

    Regular price: $2.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $2.99 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    Try for $0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central