Sara Marie Ortiz

Tribe: Pueblo of Acoma
Based In: Burien, WA
Email: nativescientist@gmail.com
Social Media: @nativescientist

About the Art
Morning has come.
And the brown children of the earth
cover their heads with red paint,
and build fires with the bodies of
their brothers, for the night
will soon
be here.

About the Artist
Sara Marie Ortiz is an Acoma Pueblo educator, scholar, poet, performance artist, and Native community advocate/activist. She earned her BFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University (Los Angeles). Ms. Ortiz has been publishing and presenting her creative work since the age of eighteen and her writing has been published in publications such as Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, New Poets of the American West, the anthology Sing: Indigenous Poetry of the Americas, Indian Country Today and The American Indian Graduate among many others. She is the author of the mixed-genre collection Red Milk and currently serves as the Native Education Program Manager for Highline Public Schools in Burien, Washington.