Her father was a civilian worker in Fort Buchanan; her mother worked in her sister's laboratory for a while and later stayed home with her children.
She enrolled at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro (Academy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help), where she graduated from high school.
With this story she won first prize in the literary contest of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Athenaeum).
García Ramis sent a book composed of 4 short stories to a contest sponsored by the Casa de las Américas in Cuba.
She returned to Puerto Rico in 1977 and published another book of short stories called La familia de todos nosotros.
[3] In 1988, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her second novel, Las horas del Sur (The Hours of the South).