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Wendy C. Ortiz (born 1973) is an American essayist, creative nonfiction writer, fiction writer and poet. She received her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California.〔 Ortiz has one published book ''Excavation: A Memoir'' (Future Tense Books, 2014) and is awaiting the publication of her second book, ''Hollywood Notebook'' (Writ Large Press, 2015). == Life and work== Wendy C. Ortiz was born in Los Angeles, California in 1973.〔 She earned her Bachelor of Arts 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 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (2002) as well as her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology (2010)〔 from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California.〔 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. 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〔 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'',〔 ''The Nervous Breakdown'',〔 ''Literary Mama'',〔 and ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wendy C. Ortiz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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