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Wendy C. Ortiz
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Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
Northwestern University Press, 2025

Mommy’s El Camino is my weekly newsletter.

she/her. Los Angeles.

https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
I did a search for “deer” in my photos app
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Not my cat, but my friend who sometimes visits my backyard, and whose person is always calling for him at nightfall.
January 20, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Have you ever seen a bigger pig in a blanket
January 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
2016: cheap sunglasses, same hopeful message (rest in piss patriarchy)
January 16, 2026 at 6:32 PM
With code NEWYEAR you get 50% off books at Northwestern University Press through January 3, 2026❣️

Excavation: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014860...

Hollywood Notebook: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014858...

Bruja: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014856...
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Abundant mail 💛 with thanks to @eireannmor.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
There’s been a lovely break between storms.
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New ornament this year in honor of the friend who likes to run up and down the top of our fence.
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
🥴
December 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
unabashed juniper lover
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🙂
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I heard @nupress.bsky.social books are 50% off with code NEWYEAR right now.

a big green bow + these books = great gift 💚💚💚

Excavation: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014860...
Hollywood Notebook: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014858...
Bruja: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014856...
December 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And it’s special to me that I’ll be reading three poems of Kevin’s, from his collection Padam Padam, tonight in Los Angeles with many others who knew him and love him 💕
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
read everything Dodie has written, with all of her mentions of Kevin, and so I felt a bit starstruck. And special. Kevin made me feel special.
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Since I’m up in the archives ~ scenes from the late 1990s
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This Friday night in Los Angeles at Poetic Research Bureau/2220 Arts + Archives
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I honestly think buying my books as a SET would make a reader in your life very happy/angsty/overwhelmed/jolted/aroused/grateful/satisfied.
Put a green bow around it 💚

Excavation: bookshop.org/p/books/exca...

Hollywood Notebook: bookshop.org/p/books/holl...

Bruja: bookshop.org/p/books/bruj...
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Related: flashback to that time on Twitter when someone I didn’t know asked if this was me in their footage of the WTO protests on 11/30/99. (Yes, it was me, before I masked up with what I had on me to deal with the tear gas.)
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Kevin Killian and I, Los Angeles, 2017.
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Honored to be reading the work of Kevin Killian 💘 Friday 12/12 at 7pm 💗 PRB Los Angeles
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Me & one of my Aries exes at the WTO protest in Seattle, 11/30/99. I made photocopied holiday cards that year with this photo 🕊️
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Re: taking risks on books large publishers wouldn’t. My book Excavation was rejected by ~30 traditional publishing editors before a small press (@futuretensebooks.bsky.social) picked it up. It went on to sell about 10k copies before I sold it to @nupress.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM