About Nora

Nora Jacquez has traveled, studied and lived in Mexico part time since her undergraduate days. She has a Ph.D. in Spanish and is also a licensed attorney.

An inveterate traveler, she has visited more than sixty countries, to teach Tibetan monks and nuns in India, work in a Community Law Center in New Zealand, volunteer with Seniors in Avignon, France, apprentice to a carpenter in Mexico among other things. She has backpacked in Patagonia, walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain and coast to coast in England. A pilgrimage walk of one hundred twenty miles through villages of northern New Mexico was the inspiration for some of these short stories. Oaxaca, Mexico was her other muse.