Wendy is a parent and a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. Ortiz was born and raised in Los Angeles. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, StoryQuarterly, and FENCE, among many other places. Ortiz 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 and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Philadelphia, where she directs Blue Stoop, a hub for the literary arts. Her first book of nonfiction is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Emma and Wendy will be comparing their interpretations and unique experiences with abuse and the concept of evil.Įmma Copley Eisenberg’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Granta, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, The New Republic, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire and others.

Ortiz ( Excavation) will be discussing the parallels in their books and lives, delving into the non-binaries of evil and the constantly shifting nature of causing and receiving harm in their respective books. Ortiz!Īs part of the paperback release tour for The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg and Wendy C. 1 Brooklyn, The Rumpus, Specter Magazine, and many other. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nervous Breakdown, Vol.

Wendy writes the column 'On the Trail of Mary Jane' for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. It's a beautifully written and powerful story of a woman reclaiming her whole heart.Join us for an exciting virtual conversation featuring Emma Copley Eisenberg & Wendy C. Ortiz is the author of EXCAVATION: A MEMOIR (Future Tense Books, 2014) and Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2014). The present-day narrator reflects on the girl she once was, as well as the teacher and parent she has become. In Excavation: A Memoir, the black and white of the standard victim/perpetrator stereotype gives way to unsettling grays. This conflicted relationship with her teacher may have been just five years long, but would imprint itself on her and her later relationships, queer and straight, for the rest of her life. Her teacher - now a registered sex offender - continually encouraged her passion for writing while making her promise she was not leaving any written record about their dangerous sexual relationship. Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power teenagers wish for, regardless of consequences. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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