Author

Mobi Warren

Mobi Warren is a poet, translator, 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.

Author's books

Thread and Nectar

Thread and Nectar is a meditation on ways other-than-human presences—insect, bird, mammal, plant—penetrate and sustain human awareness, often mirrored in the work of human hands such as sewing, paper folding, or cooking. These poems are also a call to recognize and protect fragile webs of life damaged by war, climate change, and environmental degradation. This is a collection woven of curiosity, wonder, and care.

The Bee Maker

The year is 2036. Honeybees are nearly extinct. The world’s crops are disappearing and a young boy’s life hangs in the balance. When Melissa Bùi’s origami opens a time portal to Ancient Crete and connects her to a young athlete named Amethea, she has a chance to save both bees and boy. But she may risk blinking out of existence like the quarks her scientist father studies.