Mobi Warren
Mobi Warren is a poet, translator, puppeteer, and retired math educator from San Antonio, Texas.
She studied Ancient Greek at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a Masters degree in Multidisciplinary Sciences from the University of the Incarnate Word.
In 1977, she sailed the South China Sea with a project to rescue Vietnamese refugees, the “boat people,” and she is the translator of the children’s book The Dragon Prince: Stories and Legends from Vietnam by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, as well as his biography of the Buddha, Old Path White Clouds.
She has worked as a professional storyteller and as a puppeteer in an art museum and has taught mathematics to all grades from kindergarten to high school seniors.
She is a dedicated citizen scientist particularly interested in native plants and insect pollinators and how climate change is affecting them. She is an avid runner and lives in San Antonio with her dog Anatole and cat Petey.