Wendy Ortiz

Wendy Ortiz

The Evergreen State College, BA, 1995

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). Some of her work can be found at http://earthlydelights.typepad.com.