Elizabeth Mora (she/her) is an educator, self-taught creative, and emerging multilingual writer living on Bidjigal land and working across Western Sydney. A first-generation immigrant and descendant of Ecuadorian and Latin American diasporas across the Global North, her work traces indirect paths to community, belonging, and freedom.

Her current project, Arrarau – A Dictionary of Words Spoken by Mami, is a poetic catalogue of colloquial expressions spoken by the local Ecuadorian diaspora. Inspired by Yumna Kassab’s Parramatta Dictionary, the project reimagines everyday speech as a living archive shaped by identity, memory and place. By centring the voices of Ecuadorian mothers and matriarchs, Elizabeth explores language as a site of negotiation and defiance. Here, diasporic identities take shape, strength, and solidarity.

Elizabeth is a recipient of Our North is the South, a creative writing fellowship supported by Sweatshop Literacy Movement and Fairfield City Council and led by Uruguayan–Australian writer Natalia Figueroa Barroso. Her writing has been published in Chat Magazine (Cáceres, Spain), Sangre Migrante, the Australian Multilingual Writing Project and the University of Sydney student media.

She also writes Shungo, a personal newsletter on Substack