Wendy C. Ortiz was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the author of Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, and the dreamoir Bruja. In 2016 Bustle named her one of “9 Women Writers Who Are Breaking New Nonfiction Territory.” Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Joyland, BOMB Magazine online, StoryQuarterly, and many other places. Wendy is a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles.