Amparo Ortiz is a talented author who holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in English from the University of Puerto Rico's Río Piedras campus. Her short-story comic, "What Remains in the Dark," appears in the Eisner Award-winning anthology Puerto Rico Strong. When not writing about Latinx characters, she can be found teaching herself Korean or devouring as much young-adult fiction as she can. She currently resides in Puerto Rico.