A Mexican-American author and translator from deep South Texas, David Bowles teaches literature at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Recipient of awards from the American Library Association, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Texas Associated Press, Bowles is the author of several books, most notably the Pura Belpré Honor Book The Smoking Mirror. His work has appeared in Translation Review, Rattle, Strange Horizons, Apex, Eye to the Telescope, and Stupefying Stories, among others.