Dr. Martin D. Hill

Martin Hill Ortiz, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a professor of Pharmacology at the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He has won several awards for poetry. His short stories have appeared in print in Haunts Magazine and Miami Accent along with a half-a-dozen online journals. He also has a theatrical background, having run a comedy troupe in South Florida for several years. His comedy pieces have been performed in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico and Ireland among other places. He is among those featured in the 2012 Sundance documentary, (Peter Jackson/Amy Berg) West of Memphis.