About Steve

Steve Ramirez is an award-winning author who lives and writes in the Texas Hill
Country. Steve’s first book, Casting Forward, was featured in the film Mending the Line.
His second and third books, Casting Onward and Casting Seaward, have received critical acclaim as important works of outdoor adventure and conservation literature. Casting Homeward is the fourth and final installment in the Lyons Press
Casting series, which has quickly become a uniquely poignant and meaningful body of
work in the realm of nature-oriented literature. His fifth book, A Season in Patagonia: An
Angler and Naturalist’s Journey to Timeless Places and Hallowed Waters is being
released in October of 2026 by Lyons Press.

Steve currently writes the Seasonable Angler column for Fly Fisherman Magazine and
his work has appeared in various journals including, Fly Fisherman, Trout
Magazine, The Flyfish Journal, American Angler, Hallowed Waters Journal, Under Wild Skies, Explore Magazine and many more. Steve serves as the Ambassador for Texas for the American Museum of Fly-Fishing, is a Life Member of Trout Unlimited, and a contributing member of the Nature Conservancy, Audubon, and the Rainforest Alliance.

As a certified Master Naturalist, Steve is passionately involved in promoting the restoration and conservation of the watersheds, rivers, wetlands, and shorelines of North America and beyond. He is an avid outdoor adventure traveler who has explored four continents, but who always seems to return home to the spring-fed Hill Country streams of Texas.

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