Vickie Vértiz is a writer, born and raised in south east Los Angeles, whose work is largely informed by urban magic whimsy. Vickie has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Williams College and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the LBJ School, at the University of Texas, Austin.
Her poems and stories are found in Lunadas, the Galeria de la Raza Poetry Anthology, the 2008 Intersection for the Arts/Kearny Street Workshop Anthology, I Saw my Ex at a Party, in Mujeres de Maiz Zine, and Namecalling. She lives in San Francisco.
Current Project
From May to August 2011, in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts, Vickie is co-curating a project called, Sweet Beans and Rice: Investigating an Asian- Latino Future, with Kenji Liu. The project will create a living archive of an Asian-Latino future, documenting the convergences of these communities and their aesthetics. Visit the website here:
http://www.theintersection.org/calendar/index.php?op=view&id=3964
