mónica teresa ortiz is a poet born and raised in the rural Panhandle of Texas, between Oklahoma and New Mexico. mónica’s work includes three poetry chapbooks, “muted blood” (2018) from Black Radish Books, “autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist” (2019) from Host Publications, and “Do You Dream of Flamingos?” (2023), winner of the Garden Party Collective Chapbook prize and selected by fellow Texas poet Laura Villareal.
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