The author of eight books, including poetry, fiction, and regional history, Robert Richter has a forty-year relationship with Mexico, and that cultural geography inspires his work. In 2000 Richter won the Nebraska Arts Council’s Literary Achievement Award, and in 2007, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Buenos Aires. Richter has also been a wheat farmer, substitute teacher, and tour guide in Latin America. His other books on Mexico include Something in Vallarta, Search for the Camino Real: a history of San Blas and the Road to get there, and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Roots of Mexico's New Democracy. Something Like A Dream is Richter's second Cotton Waters mystery.