More about Steve:
Ever since he first read Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass, Steve Ramirez has been driven to experience and put into words what it is to live truly in the wild and free places of the earth. Years later, he would hear the lions roar outside his tent on the Serengeti, survive malaria in the Ivory Coast, and hunt kudu at the edge of the Kalahari Desert.
As a U.S. Marine, he traveled throughout North America, Europe and Africa, experiencing the threat of Terrorism firsthand. As a Texas Lawman, he has worked undercover narcotics, weapons, homicide, sex crimes, and counter terrorism, witnessing the very best and worst of humanity. His search for experience has included being a rodeo bull rider, scuba diver, martial artist, mountaineer, marathon runner, kayaker, mountain biker, fly-fisher, big game hunter, and anything else that gets him outdoors and on the edge. Steve tries to bring these experiences and the questions they pose to each story, essay, poem, and article.
Steve lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country.