Wendy C. Ortiz

Poet, Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Los Angeles, CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir Bruja. In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in such venues as The New York Times, Joyland, and a year-long series appeared at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Most recently her “Urban Liminal” series of texts appear alongside signature graphic representations of the projects of Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects in the book Amplified Urbanism. Wendy is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books: ,
Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015)
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Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014)
Journals: ,
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Pank
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Specter Magazine
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The Coachella Review
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The Collapsar
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The Nervous Breakdown
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The New York Times

Fiction

Journals:
knock
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Specter Magazine
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Poetry

Journals:
4th Street
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Blood Orange Review
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Cranky
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Eclipse
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Spillway
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Spillway Magazine

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, LGBTQ, Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
Raised in: 
North Hollywood, CA
California
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Last update: May 14, 2019