Alberto Ramirez is a Los Angeles-based writer and author. A former educator, he is a literacy advocate and staunch believer in the magic and power of words and storytelling. His influences are many--writers, musicians, painters and humanitarians--including Albert Camus, Juan Rulfo, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Ron Arias, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Neil Finn, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Martin Luther King, Jr. more...
