About Elías Ramos
Hi there! My name is Elías Ramos, or you can also call me by my earth name, Owl. I started writing at the age of 10, when I took a writing program through the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program in my home state of Maryland. After I started writing there, I never stopped.
I graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts high school, where I was a part of the acting department. You can catch me as one of the two lead roles in The Great Aquarium Treasure Hunt, an Emmy award-winning children’s special that aired on PBS, and hear me as the voice of Francis Scott Key, writer of the US national anthem, on the historical boat tour of Fort McHenry in Maryland.
At Williams College in Massachusetts, I majored in English and continued to study writing and perform in various theatrical productions.
As someone with a broad variety of experiences, I work to bring my perspectives to anything I do, whether that’s through my mixed heritage, the languages I speak (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese), or my different travels (32 countries, 5 continents, and counting!).
Zoology, paleontology, mythology, language, and music are just some of the many interests that inform what I write and how I live, and how I’ll continue to put my work out into the world!
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Concise Biography
A one-sentence biography suitable for attribution / reprint.Elías “Owl” Ramos is a multilingual actor, global traveler, animal lover, and author of the Sam White Owl letters.
Brief Biography
A single-paragraph abridged biography; approximately 100 words.Trained in the acting department of Baltimore School for the Arts and majoring in English at Williams College, Elías “Owl” Ramos is dedicated to writing and sharing engaging stories. Having visited and lived in thirty-two countries across five continents, he speaks three languages and has studied topics ranging from mythology and language to zoology and ecology. His first publicly distributed stories are the Letters from a Cryptid Hunter, which tell the experiences of Sam White Owl, a member of a global organization that deals with cryptids and monsters. The nineteen-episode series of letters has received wide acclaim and hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.
Extended Biography
A full biography suitable for quoting and reprint, approximately 300 words.Although originally from Florida, Elías “Owl” Ramos has spent most of his life in Maryland, where his love for writing was kindled at the age of ten during the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer program. Throughout middle school, he wrote fifteen books in three different original series for family and friends.
His first publicly distributed stories, available in 2025, are collected in Letters from a Cryptid Hunter, which relates the experiences of Sam White Owl, a member of a global organization that deals with cryptids and monsters.
Elías is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he was a part of the acting department. He can be seen as one of the two lead roles in The Great Aquarium Treasure Hunt, an Emmy award-winning children’s special that aired on PBS, and can be heard as the voice of Francis Scott Key, writer of the US national anthem, on the historical boat tour of Fort McHenry in Maryland, among other roles.
Elías attended Williams College in Massachusetts, the top liberal arts college in the US, where he majored in English and continued to act on both stage and screen. In 2018, he taught English and dance in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, earning a certificate as an ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor.
As someone of mixed heritage, Elías has been exposed to multiple cultures throughout his life. As a traveler, he has lived, worked, and learned in thirty two different countries across five continents, and plans to continue.
Animals and nature are two of Elías’ greatest loves. He has worked at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, ridden horses in Norway, flown Harris hawks in Virginia, tracked puff adders and worked with cheetahs in Namibia, and more.
He speaks English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese, and his studies and interests encompass zoology, paleontology, mythology, language, music, and many others.
Today, Elías Ramos’ history and identity continue to inform how he lives and what he writes.