About

My name is Summer Dawn Hortillosa and I’m from Jersey City, New Jersey. If you came here to contact me, email me at summerhortillosa@gmail.com.

Occupationally, I am a staff writer for The Jersey City Independent. I am also a freelance arts and entertainment writer for publications like The Jersey Journal, for which I was formerly the Hoboken/Entertainment reporter.

I am also a creative writer specializing in short stories, plays and haiku. I am a director and actress as well and have worked on productions of my own plays. My most recent work, “Secrets; Love,” was part of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in Manhattan.

I also write songs (music and lyrics) but am having difficulty doing anything with them since I can only sing and play the ukulele.

I believe in the beauty of humanity and of feeling.

By the way, I think being a writer makes life brighter and more understandable. Because I am a writer, I can look at life’s challenges and see them as gifts from God who blesses me with new emotions, new characters and new story ideas every day.

On an unrelated note, I really like this song:

Other songs I like: Blue Jeans, We Found Love, The Walk, Radar Detector, Moves Like Jagger, “Heroes”