April Maria Ortiz

April Maria Ortiz is a writer, artist, and circuit-riding math professor whose essays have appeared in Texas Monthly, the Texas Observer, and elsewhere. She lives in Uvalde, where she inhabits an old house overlooking the grave of a racist gunfighter and spends her days trying to understand how she got there. She's working on a project about the history of Uvalde as well as a memoir about autism, insects, trans femininity, particle physics, tiny Texas towns, and the backwaters of American religion.