Patricia Perea is a Mexicana/Indigena writer born and raised in the Llano Estacado, i.e. the Staked Plains of northwest Texas and eastern New Mexico. She is a first generation college student and is the first in her family to receive graduate degrees. She has published scholarly work in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicana/o Studies, Journal of Education Studies; creative non-fiction work in La Tolteca Zine; poetry in As/Us, the New Mexico Poetry Anthology as well as in online forums. With Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara) she co-authored The Pueblo Food Experience: Whole Food of Our Ancestors (2016).
Some of the media Patricia Perea has worked with include ABC News, KOAT News, New Mexico Living, Native America Calling, NBC News, El Palacio Magazine, PBS Colores, and El Pulso Podcast.
Currently she is the Director of Education and Outreach at the Museum of International Folk Art and an adjunct professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Based out of O’ga P’ogeh, Santa Fé, New Mexico she is currently working on a collection of poetry and a set of scholarly essays.
Patricia Marie Perea 