Pat Mora

Pat Mora Pat Mora is an award-winning author of poetry, essays, and children's books. She is a native of El Paso, Texas, the border city to which her grandparents migrated during the Mexican Revolution. In 1994, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry, and in 1986 was awarded a Kellogg National Fellowship which allowed her to study the importance of preserving languages and traditions, nationally and internationally. Her poetry collections for adults include Communion, Borders, Chants, and most recently, Agua Santa: Holy Water. Her children's titles include The Race of Toad and Deer, The Gift of the Poinsettia: El Regalo de la Flor de Nochebuena, The Desert Is My Mother: El Desierto Es Mi Madre, Listen to the Desert: Oye al Desierto, A Birthday Basket for Tia, and Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three, her most recent work. In spring 1997, Ms. Mora's memoirs about her family, Voices from the Garden: Voces del Jardin, was published.

Pat Mora was a featured panel speaker at the Virginia Hamilton Conference in 1997.