Daniel Chacón

Daniel Chacón
Occupation professor
Nationality American
Alma mater California State University, Fresno
University of Oregon
Genre poetry
Notable awards American Book Award

Daniel Chacón is a Latino novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and radio host.

Career

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

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

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]

Awards

Chacón has been the recipient of the Hudson Prize, the American Book Award, a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Paterson Fiction Prize.[3]

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 Jose 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)

References

  1. ↑ http://latinopoetryreview.blogspot.com/2011/02/fresno-states-first-chicano-student.html
  2. 1 2 http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=faculty.utep.edu/danchacon
  3. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-17. Retrieved 2012-05-07.


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