Juan Ortiz

Juan Ortiz is a musician, poet, writer, and visual artist born on December 5, 1983, in Punta de Piedras, Margarita Island, Venezuela. He graduated in Comprehensive Education, majoring in Language and Literature, from Udone. He is the director of the publishing house Naufragio (specializing in poetry, contemporary fiction, fantasy, and horror). He has worked as a university professor of literature, history, arts, and guitar at Unimar and Unearte. Currently, he is a columnist for the newspaper El Sol de Margarita and Actualidad Literatura. He has collaborated with the digital portals Gente de Mar, Writing Tips Oasis, Frases más Poemas, and Lifeder. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he works as an editor, proofreader, content creator, and full-time writer. He recently won the First José Joaquín Salazar Franco Literary Contest in the categories of classic poetry and free poetry (2023). Some of his published books: • En La Boca de los Caimanes (2017); • Salt Cayenne (2017); • Passerby (2018); • Stories from the Scream (2018); • Salt Rock (2018); • The Bed (2018); • The House (2018); • Of Man and Other Wounds of the World (2018); • Evocative (2019); • Aslyl (2019); • Sacred Shore (2019); • Bodies on the Shore (2020); • Inside the Motherland (2020); • Anthology of Salt (2021); • Rhyming to the Shore (2023); • The Garden of Happy Verses / A Poem for Each Day (2023); • Restlessness (2023); • Longline: Phrases Adrift (2024); • My Poetry, the Misunderstanding (2024); • Shipwreck (2025).