Maria Burns Ortiz

Maria Burns Ortiz is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning sports journalist, and video game writer. She spent over a decade in sports media, including seven years as a writer and columnist for ESPN.com, and was recognized as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Emerging Journalist of the Year. She is also a teaching artist on the topic of memoir writing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She co-authored "My Fight/Your Fight" with Ronda Rousey, which was a bestseller in five countries, translated into nine languages, hit No. 5 on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, and was named the U.K.'s "Sports Book of the Year" in 2016. As creative director of 7 Generation Games, she crafts compelling historical narratives focused on indigenous and underrepresented voices.