Complex sentence: She was born in El Paso, Texas, on January 19,1942, and is often called a regionalist for the way she portrays the Chihuahua desert and cultural diversity of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Split into simpler sentences: She was born in El Paso, Texas, on January 19,1942. In her writing, Mora adopts the terrain and life of the Chihuahua desert and recognizes the human and cultural diversity of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.