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Jina Ortiz

JINA ORTIZ previously has been published in the Sahara, Afro-Hispanic Review, Calabash, Poui, New Millennium Writings, The Caribbean Writer, Red Hawk Review, New Works Review and The Worcester Review, amongst other journals. She has received residency fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Art OMI/Ledig House Residency, the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center (NEA Fellow), the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Can Serrat Residency in Barcelona, Spain, and a fellowship grant in 2006 from the Worcester Cultural Commission. Her poem in Solstice is part of the book-length manuscript titled Miss Universe: poems.