Sergio A. Ortiz (San Juan, Puerto Rico) has a B.A. in English literature from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University. He is a retired teacher. His poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in Salt River Review, Yellow Medicine, Autumn Sky Poetry, and Rust and Moth.
Ortiz's poem "The Pressing Sound of Bluegrass" appeared in Volume 1 Issue 3 of Apparatus Magazine.