Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is currently a graduate student of psychology, and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

Wendy was a 2007 Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook. Recent publications include Blood Orange Review, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Cranky, KNOCK, and Eclipse.

She is co-founder and curator of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series at the Good Luck Bar in Hollywood that began in 2004.

She has read at various venues, including the West Hollywood Book Fair (Los Angeles), The Knitting Factory (Los Angeles), World Stage (Los Angeles), the Echo Park Poetry Festival (Los Angeles), and the first Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington in 2000.

Wendy has been a creative writing teacher of Los Angeles youth in juvenile detention facilities, as well as a journalist, mudwrestler, library worker, and editor and publisher of a handbound literary journal. She received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in 1995 and lived in Olympia, Washington for eight years before returning to Los Angeles. She is currently at work on various projects including a memoir and a poetry collection.

:: UPCOMING READINGS ::

Rhapsodomancy will share the stage with Literati Cocktail at the 7th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair, Sunday, September 28th, 2008.

Valley Contemporary Poets reading, June 19, 2009. Information forthcoming.