The lead character as a white boy that goes to a high-end private school. She got her start in writing as a seventeen-year-old when she started penning her first story. Ortiz’s identity as a Latinx author has significantly affected the stories she is interested in telling. As a Latinx author, she loves reading and writing about fantastical and contemporary Latinx characters in fiction. When she is not teaching English as a second language to students she loves to dabble in Korean and reads as much young adult fiction as she can find. Ortiz went to the Piedras Campus of UPR Rio from where she got her bachelor’s and masters in Psychology. She is also the author of “Saving Chupie” the HarperCollins published graphic novel targeted at middle graders. Apart from her novels, she is a short fiction author and “What Remains in The Dark” her short story comic was featured in “Puerto Rico Strong” the Eisner Award-winning anthology that was published in 2018. Amparo Ortiz is a young adult and children’s fiction author best known for her debut novel “Blazewrath Games.” She was born in San Juan Puerto Rico though she has now moved to the northeastern coast of the island from where she does her writing.
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