Wendy Ortiz
Education
B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1995
Website
Biographical Note
Wendy C. Ortiz is a writer living in Los Angeles. Currently a student in the M.A. in Psychology program at Antioch University Los Angeles, she is also a graduate of Antioch's M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program. She has been a creative writing teacher of Los Angeles youth in juvenile detention facilities, as well as a journalist, mudwrestler, longtime library worker, and editor and publisher of a handbound literary journal . Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art (Los Angeles); Eclipse (Glendale Community College); Cranky (Seattle); KNOCK (Antioch Seattle); the online zine Experimental Candy; Calapooya (Eastern Oregon University), EM Literary Asylum (San Francisco); poetrymagazine.com; and 4th Street (Olympia, WA). She was recently awarded a two-week residency at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, Washington. Wendy curates the Rhapsodomancy reading series at the Good Luck Bar in Hollywood (www.rhapsodomancy.org).
Publication Type(s)
Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry
Publication Excerpt
Some of her work can be found at Wendy Ortiz's Poetry.