Frank Ortega
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Frank Ortega has had work 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 the MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation (France), Dorland Mountain Colony, and Millay Colony for the 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 (NYC) and Louisiana Voices at Time & Space Limited (Hudson, NY). He was awarded a working scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont and recently received a performance grant from Poets & Writers, Inc.
In March of 2010 he was invited to London as a Commendation Winner in the annual contest sponsored by The Poetry Society of the United Kingdom and in August was awarded a writing residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. In September of that year, he was invited to read at the University of Missoula in Montana and was awarded a fellowship to attend the annual poetry conference at The Frost Place in New Hampshire in 2011. He has just been published by the British literary journal BRAND, as well as having other work selected as a finalist for the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize, which was published in their latest issue.
Winning Entry: Thinking of Oz
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2011, Finalist
