Jesús Abraham "Tato" Laviera (September 5, 1950 – November 1, 2013), is the best-selling Hispanic poet and playwright in the United States. Born Jesús Laviera Sanches, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, he migrated to the United States at the age of ten, with his family to reside in New York City's Lower East Side. Throughout his life he was involved in various human rights organizations, but was best known as a renowned Nuyorican poet. An obituary for NBC Latino describes him as "one of the greatest representatives of the Nuyorican movement."