Estela mora biography of martin
Pat Mora, award-winning author of books for adults, teens and children, is a literacy advocate and popular presenter on creativity, inclusivity and bookjoy....
Pat Mora
“No one has felt like this.
Their daughter Estela, who was Pat's mother, grew up translating English into Spanish for her parents.
Ever.” So thinks a teen in Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love, Pat’s second collection for young adults. Pat also wrote My Own True Name and seven poetry collections for adults: Encantado: Desert Monologues, Adobe Odes, Aunt Carmen’s Book of Practical Saints, Agua Santa: Holy Water, Communion, Borders and Chants.
The New York Times wrote that “Ms. Mora’s poems are proudly bilingual, an eloquent answer to purists who refuse to see language as something that lives and changes.”
Her nonfiction books for adults include her acclaimed memoir, House of Houses, Zing!
Jesus married Estela Martin del Campo (born Larios).Seven Creativity Practices for Educators and Students and Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle.
With her daughter, author Libby Martinez, Pat wrote I Pledge Allegiance and Bravo, Chico Canta!
Bravo!. Pat has written more than forty children’s books, her newest, My Magic Wand: Growing with the Seasons, Le