Ms. Ortiz holds a Master’s in Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing from The Solstice Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College and is a writer and poet. She co-edited All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (the University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) with writer and editor, Rochelle Spencer. Her short story, “Maribel y El Viejo,” was published in the anthology, Daring to Write: Contemporary Writings by Dominican Women (University of Georgia Press, 2016) She has numerous poems published in poetry and literary journals and magazines.
