Pat Mora is a Chicana author known primarily for her poetry and children's books.
Pat Mora is a writer and cultural preservationist who seeks to document the lives of Mexican Americans and U.S. Latinas and Latinos through varying genres such as children's books, poetry, and nonfiction. A descendant of four grandparents who came to Texas from Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the early twentieth century, Mora's bilingual and bicultural experiences inform her literary contributions.