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Pat Mora (b. 1942)

LINKS

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=297

This link connects you to the Academy of American Poets. Here you will find an exhibit on Pat Mora including a biography, bibliographic information, and additional links.

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/patmora.html

This link connects you to an exhibit of Pat Mora hosted by Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color. Here you will find a critical biography, bibliographic information, and other online links.

BIOGRAPHY

A native of El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora is a Mexican American writer whose grandparents immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th Century. The poet's father, an optician, was born in Chihuahua, and her mother comes from El Paso. After completing her bachelor's degree in 1963 from Texas Western College—now the University of Texas, El Paso—Mora went on to receive a Master's Degree also from UTEP (1967). While working as a secondary school teacher and college-level instructor, she also hosted a radio program entitled "Voices: The Mexican-American Perspective." The mother of three children, Mora is an author both of poetry and of children's literature. Mora's numerous awards include the Creative Writing Award of the National Association for Chicano Studies (1983), Women Artists and Writers of the Southwest poetry award (1984), and the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award (1997). In the fall of 1999, she was named Garrey Carruthers Chair in Honors, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico A self-proclaimed "daughter of the desert," Mora has explored in such works as Chants (1984), Borders (1986), and Communion (1991), Nepantla: Essays from the Land in the Middle (1993), House of Houses (1997), My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults, 1984-1999 (2000) what Gloria Anzaldua has characterized as the "border land" of bilingual and bicultural identity as a Mexican American woman.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Alarcon, Norma. "Interview with Pat Mora." Third Woman. 3(1-2):121-126. 1986.

Fox, Linda C. "Four Imaginarios Femeninos in Pat Mora's Cuarteto Mexicano." The Americas Review: a Review of Hispanic Literature & Art of the USA. 25:166-78. 1999

Murphy, Patrick D. "Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora." Melus. 21(1):59-69. 1996 Spring

Nigro, Kirsten. "Mujeres fuertes: La poesia de Pat Mora." Cuadernos Americanos. 55:118-30. 1996 Jan-Feb.

Rebolledo, Tey Diana. "Pat Mora." This Is about Vision: Interviews with Southwestern Writers. Eds. William Balassi, John F. Crawford, and Annie O. Eysturoy. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 1990. 129-139.

Rocard, Marcienne. "Du bon usage de la difference: Borders de Pat Mora." Annales du Centre de Recherches Sur L'Amerique Anglophone. 18:279-88, 369. 1993.

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