Frank Ortega is a writer and poet whose work has been published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and, most recently, in the latest issue of Oberon, as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry. He has been awarded writing residencies at MacDowell, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation, Dorland Mountain Arts, and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has read in New York City at the Poetry Society of America, The Knitting Factory, the New York Public Library, the Brecht Forum, CB’s 313, and Barrow Street Poets. His most recent performance readings were Fifty States at Cornelia Street Café and Louisiana Voices at Time & Space Limited. He was awarded a working scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont and recently received a performance grant from Poets & Writers. He has just returned to Madison since graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison 40 years ago.