Career
He is the author of three volumes of poetry, four novels, a collection of essays and a theoretical book on the martial art of t"ai chi ch"uan. A practitioner of t"ai chi for more than 30 years, Dow has written articles on these subjects that have appeared in Tai Chi Magazine, Inside Kung Fu and Yoga Journal. He also wrote, directed and produced several video productions, including a documentary series on the first nationally sanctioned kung fu tournament in the United States, the United States. National Chinese Martial Arts Competition.
Dow was the publisher and a founding editor of Phosphene Magazine, a quarterly literary magazine in the Houston area from 1978 to 1981 that featured fiction, poetry, essays, graphic art and photographs, and Dialog Magazine, a bimonthly urban tabloid in Houston from 1983 to 1984 that featured articles, essays, reviews, features, fiction, poetry, graphic art and photographs.
Dow is currently the editor of Rice Magazine (formerly Sallyport), the magazine of Rice University in Houston.
