Francisco Montaña Ibáñez is an award-winning author for children and a professor at the National University of Colombia (IIE). The Immortal Boy is his first book translated into English. David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas. Among his multiple award-winning books are Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico, and They Call Me Güero; he is also the translator of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas. In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.