The Smoking Mirror (19 page)

Raised in an ethnically diverse family in south Texas, David Bowles spends most of his days writing, researching, and teaching at a local university. Bowles is author of several books, including
Border Lore, The Seed, Mexican Bestiary
, and
Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry
, which was awarded the 2014 Soeurette Diehl Frasier Award for Best Translation by the Texas Institute of Letters.