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A native of El Paso, Pat Mora is an award-winning author of children’s books, poetry, and nonfiction.
Her new children’s books are A Library for Juana: the World of Sor InJz in English and Spanish editions and
Maria Paints the Hills, two books about creative women.
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Her memoir, House of Houses, reveals her interest in family, Mexican American culture, and the desert.
The illustrated volume, Aunt Carmen’s Book of Practical
Saints, is her fifth poetry collection. She received a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship to write in
Umbria, Italy in 2003 and has been recipient and judge of the Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a recipient and advisor of the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowships. |
Photo by Cheron Bayna
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She was the Carruthers Chair, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, and she was honored as a “Literary Light for Children” by the Associates of the Boston Public Library.
The proud mother of three children, Pat Mora divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area.
For more
information, go to www.patmora.com.
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