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Wendy C. Ortiz
Born (1973-05-16) May 16, 1973 (age 51)
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Occupationnon-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist
NationalityAmerican
Genreliterary nonfiction

Wendy C. Ortiz (born 1973) is an American essayist a, creative nonfiction writer, fiction writer and poet[1]. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California[1]. Ortiz has one published novel Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014)[2] and is awaiting the publication of her second novel, Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015)[3].

Life and work

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Wendy C. Ortiz was born in Los Angeles, California in 1973[1]. She earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College in 1995 and lived in Olympia, Washington for eight years before returning to Los Angeles where she presently resides. While living in Olympia, Washington, Ortiz was a mudwrestler, library worker, and editor and publisher of 4th Street, a handbound literary journal.

Ortiz went on to receive her M.A. in Clinical Psychology and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles, California[1]. Ortiz currently works at a Los Angeles clinic as well as in a private practice internship, finishing the final intern hours required for licensure as a marriage and family therapist in California.

She is co-founder, curator and host of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, which began at the Good Luck Bar in Los Angeles in 2004 and has continued ever since[4]. The reading series will exist in other iterations and venues beginning in 2015. Ortiz was a Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook in 2007 and 2009[1] and has read at various venues including Secret City in Los Angeles, RADAR Reading Series in San Francisco, LitCrawl L.A.: NoHo, the West Hollywood Book Fair in Los Angeles, The Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, World Stage in Los Angeles, the Echo Park Poetry Festival in Los Angeles and the first Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington in 2000. Ortiz is an adjunct faculty in creative writing and has also facilitated creative writing workshops with Los Angeles youth in juvenile detention facilities.

Ortiz's essays have appeared in esteemed publications such as The New York Times[5], The Nervous Breakdown[6], Literary Mama[7], and McSweeney's Internet Tendency[8].

Works

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Upcoming Works

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Books (Print)

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  • Hollywood Notebook. Writ Large Press. 2015.

Poetry (Print Journal)

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  • (Featured in) Wide Awake: The Poets of Los Angeles and Greater L.A. Beyond Baroque Books. 2015

Books

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  • Excavation: A Memoir. Future Tense Books. 2014[2].

Prose

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Online

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Print

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  • “Finding the Natural Way". California Prose Directory 2014. Outpost 19. 2014[29].
  • "Chemical Wash". Red Light Lit, Vol. 6. 2014.
  • “Metro Diaries”. Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art. Issue 1, otoño. 2006
  • "The Gentle Symbiosis". KNOCK 2/1. 2005.

Poetry

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Online

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  • "Rogue Benediction". The Rumpus. 2014[30].
  • “After Bzzzzzzz”. Luna Luna. 2014[31].
  • "Death Lament". The Rumpus. 2014[32].
  • "Accused 1 and 2". Finery. 2014[33].
  • "Luminous fossilized". Educe. 2014.
  • "SLO". Educe. 2014.
  • “Sweet”. Sweet: A Literary Confection'. 2009[34].
  • "Driftwood Melody". Two Hawks Quarterly. 2008[35].
  • "Some Scars". Blood Orange Review. 2008[36].
  • "she creates a new life again"; "The women in my family"; "Operation"; "Sweet". womenwriters.net. 2005[37].
  • “The women in my family”. Poetry Magazine. 2002.
  • “Occupation”. Voices from the WTO. 2000[38].
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  • "the names reserved for someone else". Spillway. 2013.
  • "The Failed Hostage-Taker". Spillway. Issue 14. 2010.
  • "Initiation". Spillway. Issue 14. 2010.
  • “Olympia”. Cranky. Issue 5. 2005.
  • “Exhibit A”. Eclipse: A Literary Journal. 2005.
  • “Deeply”. Bedwetter.
  • “Plum Pout”. Calapooya. 2002.
  • “Tender Machine”. 4th Street. 2001.
  • “Occupation”. Voices from the WTO. 2000.

Journalism

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Works In Progress[39]

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Book Reviews
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  • “Medicine Stories”. Works In Progress. 1999.
  • “Elizabeth Martinez and Angela Y. Davis”. Works In Progress. 1999.
Interviews
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  • “Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes!: Interview with Scarlot Harlot - Part 2”. Works In Progress. 1999.
  • “Interview with Prostitute Rights Activist and Whore, Scarlot Harlot - Part 1”. Works In Progress. 1999.
Articles
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  • “Give Us Your Social Change”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Local Pro-Choice Forces Assert Rights of Women”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Revolutionary Manuals 101; One Woman’s Perspective”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Building Bridges Toward True Coalitions.”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “RAMP’s Second Public Screening Brings Anti-Choicers Out of the Woodwork”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Hate Television? Make Your Own Damn Programming!”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Critical Mass: The Movie!”. Works In Progress. 1998.
  • “Raising the Spirit of Affirmative Action”. Works In Progress. 1997.
  • “To the Radical Women of Color in Olympia: An Invitation”. Works In Progress. 1997.
  • “I Don’t Worship the Goddess, I’m Not Anti-Porn and I Wanna Be A Boxer—Can I Still Be Allowed in the Feminist Spectrum?”. Works In Progress.  1997.

Interviews for The Rumpus

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  • Interview with Eloise Klein Healy. The Rumpus. 2013[40].
  • Interview with Louise Mathias. The Rumpus. 2013[41].
  • Interview with Paul of Captain Pete's Bait & Tackle. The Rumpus. 2013[42].

Achievements and awards

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  • Finalist, the William Allen Creative Nonfiction Prize of The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, April 2006.
  • Co-editor and co-publisher of Lounge Lit: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by the Writers of Literati Cocktail and Rhapsodomancy. Los Angeles: LitRhap Press, 2005.
  • Finalist, University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Residency, 2003.
  • Fellowship to Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, July 2003.
  • Finalist for the Firebox Fiction/Fifty-Fifty Award, Night Train magazine, Summer 2002.
  • Prose Poetry and Anarchist Praxis: Creative Agents of Radical Transformation, critical paper, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Antioch University Los Angeles, Summer/Fall 2001.
  • Invited to teach “The Language of Inclusion,” a one-time workshop, co-sponsored by the Students of Color Anthology at The Evergreen State College, as part of The Campus Week of Dialogue on Race, a national initiative sponsored by President Clinton’s One America, October 2000.
  • Self-published Zine Freefeeder cataloged at State University of New York at Buffalo, Yale, and the Ruel Gaviola Zine Collection at University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • 1993 Dutton’s Short Story Award, Los Angeles Valley College for fiction.

Interviews and book reviews of Wendy C. Ortiz

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  • Interview with Amy Silverberg. Los Angeles Review of Books. 2014[43].
  • “’Excavation’ digs up memories of an illicit child-teacher relationship”. LA Times. 2014[44].
  • “Episode 312 – Wendy C. Ortiz”. Otherppl. 2014[45].
  • “The ‘Excavation’ of Author Wendy Ortiz”. YAY! LA Magazine. 2014[46].
  • “Small Press Spotlight: Wendy C. Ortiz”. Critical Mass. 2014[47].
  • Press Play Interview with Madeleine Brand. KCRW. 2014[48].
  • “Behind The Story - Wendy C. Ortiz”. UCR Palmdesert. 2013[49].
  • “Writer, with Kids: Wendy C. Ortiz”. Cari Luna. 2014[50].
  • "Let's Just Do This: Eleven Small-Press Authors and their Publishing Partners". Poets & Writers. 2014[51].
  • Interview with Brian Kornell. PANK magazine. 2014[52].
  • Interview with Milcah Halili Orbacedo. Literary Kitchen. 2014[53].
  • “Book Notes – Wendy C. Ortiz. ‘Excavation’”. Largehearted Boy. 2014[54].
  • “YOU MAKE ME FEEL”. Entropy. 2014[55].
  • Book Talk podcast with Kory French. Break Thru Radio. 2014[56].
  • Interview with Sarah Einstein. Brevity. 2014[57].
  • Interview with Lauren Eggert-Crowe. Midnight Breakfast. 2014[58].
  • “Creative Ladies: Wendy C. Ortiz”. Welcome To Ladyville. 2014[59].
  • “Her Flaming Fingers: Wendy C. Ortiz and Rhapsodomancy”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 2014[60].
  • Interview with Sarah McCarry. The Rejectionist. 2014[61].
  • “Wendy C. Ortiz & Kristina Wong are Awesome”. Cultural Weekly. 2014[62].
  • “Afternoon Bites: Emily Gould Interviewed, New Swans, Alan Lomax in Michigan, and more”. Volume 1 Brooklyn. 2014[63].
  • Interview with Karly Little. Lunch Ticket. 2014[64].
  • “’Beautifully Distrubing’: An Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz”. Specter Magazine. 2013[65].
  • Interview with Antonia Crane. ZYZZYVA blog. 2013[66].

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Author's Bio". Poets & Writers Author's Bio. Poets & Writers. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Future Tense Books Order Page". Future Tense Books. Future Tense Books. 12 November 2001. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Good Reads Author Bio". Good Reads. Good Reads. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books Wendy C. Ortiz". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  5. ^ a b Ortiz, Wendy C. (26 July 2012). "Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  6. ^ a b Ortiz, Wendy C. (1 May 2013). "Mix Tape". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  7. ^ a b Ortiz, Wendy C. (4 May 2013). "Minutes Are Just Seconds Aren't Minutes". Literary Mama. Literary Mama. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  8. ^ a b Ortiz, Wendy C. "On the Trail of Mary Jane". McSweeney's Internet Tendency. McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  9. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (24 August 2014). "Two Stories by Wendy C. Ortiz". WhiskeyPaper. WhiskeyPaper. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  10. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (26 March 2014). "Girlfriends". Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  11. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (27 January 2014). "Mudhoney by Wendy C. Ortiz". The Collapsar. The Collapsar. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  12. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (10 October 2014). "For the Love of Horror". Brain, Child. Brain, Child. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  13. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (15 September 2014). "I'm On Fire". Jaded Ibis Productions. Jaded Ibis Productions. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  14. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (15 February 2014). "Listen". The Coachella Review. The Coachella Review. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  15. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (21 January 2014). "As Mark Ruffalo Is My Witness . . ". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  16. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (20 May 2014). "Mark Ruffalo ha visto tutto". Abbiamo Le Prove. Abbiamo Le Prove. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  17. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (14 December 2013). "Love Letter to Olympia #106". Litro. Litro. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  18. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (3 October 2013). "The Not-Prenatal Vitamin: WENDY C. ORTIZ on Not Having A Second Kid". Mutha Magazine. Mutha Magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  19. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (3 October 2013). "Pretty". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  20. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (23 April 2013). "Spell". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  21. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (16 April 2013). "Field Notes". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  22. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (12 April 2013). "Research on the Imagination". The Nervous Breakdown. The Nervous Breakdown. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  23. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (19 July 2012). "The History of Led Zeppelin in My Pants". Split Lip magazine. Split Lip magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  24. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (8 March 2013). "It Only Takes One". Hedgebrook Farmhouse Table. Hedgebrook Farmhouse Table. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  25. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (12 October 2012). ""Jumbo's" by Wendy C. Ortiz". Specter magazine. Specter magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  26. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (7 April 2012). "Interiors". PANK magazine. PANK magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  27. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (10 December 2011). ""Black Car Land" by Wendy Ortiz". Specter magazine. Specter magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  28. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (20 September 2011). "The Fence". Gender Across Borders. Gender Across Borders. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  29. ^ "California Prose Directory 2014". Outpost 19. Outpost 19. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  30. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (25 April 2014). "National Poetry Month Day 25: "Rogue Benediction" by Wendy C. Ortiz". The Rumpus. The Rumpus. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  31. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (16 July 2014). "After Bzzzzzzz by Amy Gerstler: Poetry by Wendy C. Ortiz". Luna Luna. Luna Luna. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  32. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (5 April 2014). "WANTED: DEATH LAMENT". The Rumpus. The Rumpus. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  33. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (13 January 2014). "Accused (1 & 2) - by Wendy C. Ortiz". Finery. Finery: an online journal from Birds of Lace. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  34. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (15 October 2011). "Sweet". Sweet: A Literary Confection. Sweet: A Literary Confection. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  35. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (15 February 2014). "Driftwood Melody by Wendy C. Ortiz". Two Hawks Quarterly. Two Hawks Quarterly. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  36. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (13 October 2005). "Some Scars". Blood Orange Review. Blood Orange Review. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  37. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. "The Ink of Pomegranate Seeds". Women Writers. Women Writers. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  38. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. "Occupation By Wendy C. Ortiz". Voices from the WTO. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  39. ^ "Works In Progress Home Page". Works In Progress. Works In Progress. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  40. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (23 March 2013). "Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eloise Klein Healy". The Rumpus. The Rumpus. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  41. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (27 April 2013). "The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Louise Mathias". The Rumpus. The Rumpus. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  42. ^ Ortiz, Wendy C. (8 June 2013). "THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #49: PAUL OF CAPTAIN PETE'S BAIT & TACKLE". The Rumpus. The Rumpus. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  43. ^ Silverberg, Amy (3 October 2014). "Unearthing the Fossils of Shame". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  44. ^ Tobar, Hector (25 July 2014). "'Excavation' digs up memories of an illicit child-teacher relationship". LA Times. LA Times. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  45. ^ Listi, Brad (14 September 2014). "Episode 312 — Wendy C. Ortiz". OTHERPPL. OTHERPPL. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  46. ^ "The "Excavation" of Author Wendy Ortiz". YAY!LA. YAY!LA. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  47. ^ González, Rigoberto (5 August 2014). "Small Press Spotlight: Wendy C. Ortiz". Critical Mass. National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  48. ^ Brand, Madeleine. "Press Play Interview with Madeleine Brand". KCRW. KCRW. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  49. ^ Reynolds, Ashley. "Behind the Story-Wendy C. Ortiz". Palm Desert MFA. UCR Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Program. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  50. ^ Luna, Cari (10 July 2014). "Writer, with Kids: Wendy C. Ortiz". Cari Luna. Cari Luna. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  51. ^ Larimer, Kevin (15 October 2014). "Let's Just Do This: Eleven Small-Press Authors and their Publishing Partners". Poets & Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  52. ^ Kornell, Brian (8 September 2014). "Behind The Fictive Veil: An Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz". PANK magazine. PANK magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  53. ^ Halili, Milcah (14 August 2014). "Milcah Halili Orbacedo Interviews Wendy C. Ortiz". Literary Kitchen. Literary Kitchen. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  54. ^ "Book Notes - Wendy C. Ortiz "Excavation"". Largehearted Boy. Largehearted Boy. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  55. ^ Abelkop, Gina (7 August 2014). "YOU MAKE ME FEEL #3: WENDY C. ORTIZ". Entropy mag. Entropy mag. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  56. ^ French, Kory (2 August 2014). "Book Talk podcast with Kory French". Break Thru Radio. Break Thru Radio. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  57. ^ Einstein, Sarah (14 August 2014). "Wendy Ortiz and Narrative Excavation". Brevity. Brevity. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  58. ^ Eggert-Crowe, Lauren. "In Conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz". Midnight Breakfast. Midnight Breakfast. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  59. ^ "Creative Ladies: Wendy C. Ortiz". Welcome To Ladyville. Welcome To Ladyville. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  60. ^ Dewberry, Jessica (22 April 2014). "Her Flaming Fingers: Wendy C. Ortiz and Rhapsodomancy by Jessica Dewberry". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  61. ^ "Working: Wendy C. Ortiz". The Rejectionist. The Rejectionist. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  62. ^ Choi, Chiwan (8 January 2014). "Wendy C. Ortiz & Kristina Wong are Awesome". Cultural Weekly. Cultural Weekly. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  63. ^ "Afternoon Bites: Emily Gould Interviewed, New Swans, Alan Lomax in Michigan, and More". Vol 1. Brooklyn. Vol 1. Brooklyn. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  64. ^ Little, Karly. "Wendy C. Ortiz, Author". Lunch Tickets. Lunch Tickets. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  65. ^ ""Beautifully Disturbing": An Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz". Specter Magazine. Specter Magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  66. ^ Crane, Antonia (23 December 2011). "A Fortunate Literary Community in L.A.: Wendy C. Ortiz and Rhapsodomancy". ZYZZYVA Blog. ZYZZYVA Blog. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
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