Naomi Ortiz (they/she) is a Disabled Mestize poet, author, facilitator, and visual artist. Ortiz's widely published poetry and writing focuses on self-care, disability justice, and climate action in the Arizona US/Mexico borderlands. Their poetry/essay collection, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice (punctum books), offers potent insights about the complexity of interdependence, calling readers to deepen their understanding of what it means to witness and love an endangered world. Their non-fiction book, Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice, provides informative tools and creative strategies for diverse communities on addressing burnout. Ortiz is a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Every Place on the Map is Disabled (Northwestern University Press).

Ortiz is a Reclaiming the US/Mexico Border Narrative Awardee for their multidisciplinary project Complicating Conversations. Their visual art has been exhibited in numerous shows and provides perspectives on what fortifies us in times of uncertainty. Ortiz’s essays appear in publications such as Rooted in Rights, Borderlore, and The Feminist Wire and are extensively anthologized. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Internet, displayed in Downtown Tucson, published in POETRY, Revista N'oj, Tupelo Quarterly, The Texas Review, and in many other journals and anthologies.