Wendy C. Ortiz

About

Wendy C. Ortiz (born 16 May 1973) is an American memoirist, essayist, writer, poet, and psychotherapist. She lives in Los Angeles.

Wendy C. Ortiz was born in 1973, in Los Angeles, California. She is of Mexican heritage.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from 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 founded by Thomas Walton and subsequently edited by Teresa Carmody.
Ortiz earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing (2002) as well as her Master of Arts in clinical psychology (2010) from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California.

She was co-founder, curator and host of the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, which began at the Good Luck Bar in Los Angeles in 2004 and continued through 2015. Ortiz was a Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook in 2007 and 2009.
In 2015 she adapted a short play from her essay “Spell” in collaboration with and directed by Meera Menon for One Axe Productions…