TEDx Speaker and songwriter Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, a Texas-based teacher and writer from McAllen, is a Mexican American poet and certified ELA teacher offering inservice training and author visits.
García has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is also a student (since Fall 2020) at Texas Tech University in the Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction program, with a focus on Language, Diversity, and Literacy Studies.
García Ordaz is also a former journalist, photographicationisticator, and word-maker-upper. García appears in the documentary, "ALTAR: Cruzando fronteras/Building bridges." His new books, Centzontle/Mockingbird: Songs of Empowerment (a regular edition and a YA edition) was released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He was born in Houston and raised in Mission, Texas. For a full bio, and for book purchases, visit his author page at Amazon here.