Rolando Andrés Ramos writes literary fiction about characters discovering unexpected truths in familiar places. His work explores themes of inheritance, identity, and place through stories that examine how we carry our past while choosing our future. These questions echo through his own journey from the Spanish Colonial streets of his Cuban childhood to his life as a writer in Florida.
Born in Havana, Rolando learned early that architecture and memory are inseparable. Childhood walks through Cuba’s colonial neighborhoods with his mother planted the seeds for stories that would bloom decades later, after a family decision that separated him from his homeland and, for years, from his older brother. These experiences of distance and reunion, of carrying one place within you while building a life in another, inform his understanding of how we navigate between preservation and transformation.
A graduate of the MFA program at Full Sail University, Rolando approaches storytelling with the same attention to structure and beauty that first drew him to architecture. Through years of crafting narratives in the professional world, he discovered that while marketing taught him how stories create connection, fiction allows him to explore the more mysterious ways stories shape our understanding of ourselves.
His debut novella, *Looking for Margarito Temprana*, reflects his deep fascination with how places whisper their stories to those willing to walk their streets with wonder. Currently teaching at the university level in Florida, he continues to write fiction that honors the complexity of cultural inheritance while guiding emerging writers through the creative process.
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