Sara Marie Ortiz is a Seattle-based educator, Native education, arts, literature, and culture specialist and writer of creative nonfiction, poetry, and mixed-genre work. She is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Acoma, a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts (BFA in creative writing) and Antioch University Los Angeles (MFA in creative writing). She has studied formally writing, law, Native studies, theater, and film. She has published widely, has been featured in such publications as the Kenyon Review, the Florida Review, Ploughshares, and she has presented widely from her beloved birthplace in New Mexico, throughout the Pacific Northwest, and all the way to Johannesburg, South Africa and Paris, France. Sara Marie is a passionate Native educator and advocate in the realm of Native education, arts, culture, literature, Tribal languages, and community. She currently serves as the Native Education Program Manager for Highline Public Schools in Burien, Washington and the Westside Urban Representative on the WA State Native Education Advisory Committee to OSPI; she loves watching movies and listening to all kinds of music (especially chilled electronic, old timey blue grass, and hip hop) and has a fluffy orange cat named Mr. Pickles.

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Burien, WA