Josephina Niggli
(1910–1983)

Josephina Niggli was born in Monterey, Mexico. Her father, a Texan, worked on the railroad and her mother was a concert violinist. During the Mexican Revolution, the family fled to San Antonio, Texas, where Niggli grew up. Niggli began writing when she was quite young, and her first collection of poems and sketches, Mexican Silhouettes, appeared when she was only 18.

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