Career
Journalism and poetry Joshua Ortega began his writing career at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, working as a reporter and a reviewer for the school"s newspaper, The Daily of the University of Washington, covering the booming Seattle music and arts scene of the 1990s. After college, he worked for the Los Angeles-based URB magazine and The Flavor, a Seattle-based hip-hop magazine. During this time, he not only continued to cover the music and entertainment beat, but also began to write about technology"s effects on culture and politics.
He soon developed a reputation as an expert in the fields of emerging technology and surveillance issues, and would later contribute feature-length articles for newspapers such as The Seattle Times.
While working as a journalist, one of Ortega"s poems, “A Place at the Table,” was selected as the lead poem for a poetry anthology, A Place at the Table, which was juried by the publishers of Blue Begonia Press and the Raven Chronicles, and edited by award-winning poet Jody Aliesan. During this time, he also worked for Microsoft, providing original content for a number of the company"s online video games.
Video games Joshua is also being credited as a writer for Epic Games" Gears of War 2 as well scripting the Gears of War comic books
