Daniel Chacón


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

Career

Chacón received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from California State University, Fresno and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from the University of Oregon.
Since 2000, he has taught in the bilingual Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Texas El Paso.
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.
Chacón is working on a collection of the poems of Andrés Montoya, the namesake of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
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, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.

Awards

Inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. 2018.
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
2013 American Book Award. Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Writings of José Antonio Burciaga. 2009
Hudson Prize, for a book length work of fiction. Unending Rooms. 2007
Doris Roberts-William Goyen Fellowship in Fiction, Christopher Isherwood Foundation. 2003

Works