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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
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
have some clouds
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If there are any survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of men in powerful positions reading this amid the avalanche of posts about Epstein, and you have not read my book Excavation, dm me. I have two copies I’d be happy to send. I hope you’re taking care as the timeline unfolds.
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It was 9 yrs ago today that I launched the first edition of BRUJA. I invited a witch to come invoke a spell, and friends read from the book alongside me. This year @nupress.bsky.social reprinted the book with its gorgeous new cover.

Enjoy this 2016 photo of me saying wtf to my child mid-shenanigan
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Get HOLLYWOOD NOTEBOOK for 40% off with discount code HAUNTED 10/31 and 11/1
nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014858...
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃 Today (10/31) and tomorrow (11/1) you can get any/all of my books for 40% off with discount code HAUNTED from @nupress.bsky.social.
Buy EXCAVATION for 40% off: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014860...
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
That moon 🌓 ✨
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Then I panned out and realized
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I was out here trying to document the new palm frond I’m watching
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
40% off all 3 of my books, and any @nupress.bsky.social books, with discount code HAUNTED, today through November 1st 🍁🎃💀👻
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
post-candy corn races, at least the kids are all old enough now that they’re not eating them off the floor
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The last time I was here trucks were pulling in with all the wood to make these steps. And today
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I’m BACK 🌞
October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Beautiful book mail! The latest by @mbsycamore.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
tossing scary lemon into the timeline 👻🍋👻
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM