Daniel Chacón

Daniel Chacón is a Latino short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor and radio host.

Daniel Chacón
OccupationProfessor/Writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia State University, Fresno
University of Oregon
GenreFiction
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award

Hudson Prize

Southwest Book Award

Pen/Oakland Prize for Fiction

Career

Chacón received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from California State University, Fresno[1] and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the University of Oregon.

As of 2012, he had been teaching in the bilingual Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Texas El Paso since 2000.[2]

His writing has appeared in various journals including ZYZZYVA, Americas Review, Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, and Callaloo. Chacón's plays have been produced in California and Oregon.

As of 2011, Chacón is working on a posthumous collection of the poems of Andrés Montoya, the namesake of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.[2]

As of 2011, he is the co-host, with Tim Z. Hernandez, of the KTEP-produced radio and online show on writers and writing, Words on a Wire,[3] and serves on the Advisory Board of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.

Awards

Doris Roberts-William Goyen Fellowship in Fiction, Christopher Isherwood Foundation. 2003

Hudson Prize, for a book length work of fiction. Unending Rooms. 2007

2013 American Book Award. Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Writings of José Antonio Burciaga. 2009

Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction. Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms, and Loops. 2014

First Place. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Award for Best Book of Fiction. Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms, and Loops. 2014

Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. 2018.

Works
  • Chicano Chicanery. Arte Público Press. January 1, 2000. ISBN 978-1558852808.
  • and the shadows took him: A Novel. Washington Square Press. April 19, 2005. ISBN 978-0743466394.
  • Unending Rooms. Black Lawrence Press. November 1, 2008. ISBN 978-0981589930.
  • The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga. University of Arizona Press. August 1, 2008. ISBN 978-0816526628. (Co-edited with Mimi Gladstein)
  • Hotel Juarez. Arte Público Press. March 30, 2013. (Arte Público Press)
  • The Cholo Tree. Piñata Books. 2017
  • . Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall®. University of Arizona Press. October 2019.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-05-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Faculty". Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-17. Retrieved 2012-05-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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