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Mónica Teresa Ortiz

Author's Bio

Mónica Teresa Ortiz (that's me) grew up in Texas - among cattle, tornadoes, and flatlands.

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

On a Greyhound Straight From the 915 (Finishing Line Press, 2008)

Anthologies:

Weight of Addition (Mutabilis Press, 2007), Writing on the Wind (Texas Tech University Press, 2004)

Journals:

Border Senses, Borderlands, In the Grove, Palabra, Rio Grande Review

Prizes:

2007 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Honorable Mention

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Amanecer en el Valle del Sinú by Raúl Gómez Jattin

Favorite Books:

All the King's Men, Garden of Eden, Travels with Charley, A Moveable Feast, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Anthropology, Dance Dance Dance, White Noise, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, Ghost World, The Watchmen, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance

Favorite Authors:

John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, The Bronte sisters, Jorge Franco, Willy Shakespeare, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Junot Diaz, Dan Rhodes, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jack London, Gertrude Stein, Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, Helene Cixous, Allen Ginsberg, Tomas Rivera, Ani Difranco, Cormac McCarthy, Carson Mccuellars, Leo Tolstoy, Turgenev, Franz Kafka, Stephen Hawking, the Marquise de Sade, Robert Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Bukowski, T. S. Eliot, Andres Montoya, Deniz, Ray Bradbury, Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes, Anais Nin, Marjane Satrapi

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Listing last updated: October 15, 2008