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Daniel Chacón (writer)

April 14, 2024

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Daniel Chacón
Chacón at AWP 2017
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Fresno, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, educator
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationCalifornia State University, Fresno (BA)
University of Oregon (MFA)
GenresFiction, Chicano literature
Notable awardsAmerican Book Awards
Hudson Prize
PEN Oakland Award

Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas.[1] He chairs the University of Texas, El Paso's creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program.[2] He founded the Chicano Writers and Artists Association with Fresno State classmate and close friend Andrés Montoya in 1985.[3][4][5]

Early life edit

Chacón was born and raised in Fresno, California; his father was from El Paso, Texas.[1][6] One of his brothers is writer Kenneth Robert Chacón, from whom he was estranged for many years.[7][8] He earned a BA in Political Science from California State University, Fresno and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Oregon.[2][9][10] While at CSU, he wrote for the campus newspaper La Voz de Aztan.[9]

Career edit

Chacón joined the MFA program at University of Texas El Paso as an assistant professor in Creative Writing in 2000[11] and has been the department chair since 2017.[12] Since 2011, he has co-hosted the KTEP show Words on a Wire; his original co-host was Benjamin Alire Sáenz and is now Tim Z. Hernandez.[13][9] Guests include Alison Hawthorne Deming, Francisco Aragón, and Garrett Hongo.[14] He serves at the assistant director of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and was appointed chair for the International Association of Burn Camps' Board of Directors in 2018,[15] and is part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word's advisory board.[16]

He has also edited several books, including A Jury of Trees (a posthumous collection of poetry by Andrés Montoya) (2017), The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José Antonio Burciaga (2008; with Mimi Reisel Gladstein) and Colón-ization: The Posthumous Poems of Andrés Montoya (2017).[17][18][19] His writing has also appeared in several anthologies: Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction (2002), Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge (2006), and Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri (2009), among others.[20] Journals that have published his work include ZYZZYVA, Americas Review, Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, and Callaloo.[21] He also dabbles in playwrighting, standup, and poetry.[22][23]

Personal life edit

Chacón is married and has a step-daughter.[4] His first child was born in 2020.[24] He began speaking Spanish in 1996.[25]

Awards and honors edit

Chacón has received a grant from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation[26] and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2019.[27]

Book Year Award Name Award Body Reference
Godoy Lives 2000 Peter and Jean de Maine Award for an Emerging Writer in Fiction Clackamas Literary Review [28][17]
Unending Rooms 2007 Hudson Prize Black Lawrence Press [17]
The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga 2009 American Book Awards Before Columbus Foundation [29]
Hotel Juárez 2014 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award PEN Oakland [30]
Tejas Award for Best Book of Fiction National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies [31]

Selected works edit

TitlePublisherDateLengthISBN
Chicano ChicaneryArte Público Press1996144 pp (paperback)978-1611920918
From Mexico City to Aztlan Oregon, in bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacon captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes torturous ways by which Mexican-Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory.[32]
and the shadows took himWashington Square Press2005352 pp (paperback)978-0743466394
Joey Molina had never been in a fight. The very thought of violence upset him. He only wanted to be an actor, and so he read plays and learned new words with his mother. When he's cast in the lead role in the school play, he's eager to go home and tell his family about it, but his parents have an announcement of their own.[33]
Unending RoomsBlack Lawrence Press2008235 pp (paperback)978-0981589930
The winner of the Hudson Prize, this collection of stories, mainly set in the Southwest, digs deep into the lives of its characters. Daniel Chacon's writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque plain talk at times, but he isn't afraid to use pretty descriptions as well.[34]
Hotel JuárezArte Público Press2012197 pp (paperback)978-1558857681
In this collection of short and flash fiction, Daniel Chacón examines peoples' interactions with each other, the impact of identity and the importance of literature, art and music.[35]
The Cholo TreePiñata Books2017248 pp (paperback)978-1558858404
Fourteen-year-old Victor has just been released from the hospital after barely surviving being shot. His mother accuses him of being a cholo, something he denies, but she's not the only adult that thinks he's a gangbanger. His sociology teacher sent him to a teach-in on gange violence, and other kids think he's in a gang. The truth is, he loves death metal, reading books, and drawing, but he can't seem to overcome society's expectations of him.[36]
Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the WallUniversity of Arizona Press2019168 pp (paperback)978-0816539918
These stories explore the concept of a wall that reaches beyond our immediate thoughts of a towering physical structure. While Chacón aims to address the partition along the U.S.-Mexico border, he also uses these stories to work through the intangible walls that divide communities and individuals—particularly those who straddle multiple cultures in their daily lives.[37]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Contreras, Russell (2020-02-14). "Focus on Latino authors amid 'American Dirt' debate El Paso's Chacón, Troncoso among suggested reads". El Paso Inc. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  2. ^ a b Maszewska, Jadwiga (2004). ""Nobody knows where Aztlan is": An interview with Daniel Chacón" (PDF). American Studies Association. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  3. ^ "ANDRÉS MONTOYA (1968-1999)". Andrés Montoya Poetry. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  4. ^ a b Silva, Ire'ne Lara (2020-04-10). "OPENING NEW DOORS AND WINDOWS: TALKING WITH DANIEL CHACÓN". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  5. ^ Cucurella, Paula (2020). ""Fuck Shakespeare" and MEChA in the '80s: An interview with Daniel Chacón". Latino Studies. 18 (1): 122–128. doi:10.1057/s41276-019-00232-9. S2CID 214273696. ProQuest 2358996295. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  6. ^ Contreras, Russell; Mone, John L. (2019-08-07). "El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain after mass shooting". The OCR. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  7. ^ "WORDS ON A WIRE: Kenneth Robert Chacón". KTEP. 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  8. ^ Vasquez, Christian (2017-09-25). "A tale of two cholos". The Prospector Daily. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  9. ^ a b c Yip, Helen (2014-11-13). "Award-winning writers team up in Texas to broadcast unique national showcase for creative writing". Borderzine. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  10. ^ "LETRAS LATINAS BLOG: "Fresno State's first Chicano student body president."". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  11. ^ "The Selected Works of Daniel Chacón". UTEP. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  12. ^ "Author Professor Daniel Chacón – The Crazy Artist: How to create". Downtown El Paso. 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  13. ^ . KTEP. 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  14. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-12-17. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  15. ^ "Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation. 2018. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  16. ^ "Advisory Board". SW Word Fiesta. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  17. ^ a b c Dreyer, Thorne (2013-12-06). "Rag Radio 2013-12-06 - Award-Winning Fiction Writer Daniel Chacón, Author of 'Hotel Juarez'". Rag Radio. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  18. ^ "Faculty". Retrieved 2012-05-07.
  19. ^ "Daniel Chacón (Professor)". University of Texas, El Paso. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  20. ^ Ladau, Eric (2013-05-21). "Classical 91.7-Arte Público Author of the Month: Daniel Chacón". Houston Public Media. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  21. ^ Dugan, Lori (2007-03-16). "EAC's Visiting Writers Series continues with Daniel Chacón". Eastern Arizona College. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  22. ^ Hoppenthaler, John (2014). "Daniel Chacón - Poetry". Connotation Press. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  23. ^ "Unending Rooms". Bookshop.org. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  24. ^ "BOOKCHAT: An interview with Daniel Chacón". SW Word Fiesta. 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  25. ^ Villalba, Tabitha (2006-08-31). "INTERVIEW: Daniel Chacon".
  26. ^ Cederlof, Calley (2016-04-13). "Author to speak at COS". Visalia Times Delta. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  27. ^ Ramos Pachecho, Maria (2019-02-19). "Creative writing professors inducted to TIL". The Prospector Daily. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  28. ^ "CLR Writing Contests". Clackamas Literary Review. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  29. ^ "The American Book Awards". Minnesota State, Moorhead. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  30. ^ "PEN Oakland Awards & Winners". PEN Oakland. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  31. ^ "Writers' Series". Lake Tahoe Community College. n.d. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  32. ^ Chicano Chicanery.
  33. ^ and the shadows took him.
  34. ^ Unending Rooms.
  35. ^ Hotel Juárez.
  36. ^ The Cholo Tree.
  37. ^ Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall.

External links edit

  • UTEP faculty page
  • UTEP Prospector

April 14, 2024
daniel, chacón, writer, needs, update, daniel, chacónchacón, 2017born1962, fresno, california, occupationwriter, educatorlanguageenglishnationalityamericaneducationcalifornia, state, university, fresno, university, oregon, genresfiction, chicano, literaturenot. needs update Daniel ChaconChacon at AWP 2017Born1962 age 61 62 Fresno California U S OccupationWriter educatorLanguageEnglishNationalityAmericanEducationCalifornia State University Fresno BA University of Oregon MFA GenresFiction Chicano literatureNotable awardsAmerican Book AwardsHudson PrizePEN Oakland AwardDaniel Chacon born 1962 is a Chicano short story writer novelist essayist editor professor and radio host based in El Paso Texas 1 He chairs the University of Texas El Paso s creative writing graduate program the country s only bilingual MFA program 2 He founded the Chicano Writers and Artists Association with Fresno State classmate and close friend Andres Montoya in 1985 3 4 5 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Awards and honors 5 Selected works 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editChacon was born and raised in Fresno California his father was from El Paso Texas 1 6 One of his brothers is writer Kenneth Robert Chacon from whom he was estranged for many years 7 8 He earned a BA in Political Science from California State University Fresno and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Oregon 2 9 10 While at CSU he wrote for the campus newspaper La Voz de Aztan 9 Career editChacon joined the MFA program at University of Texas El Paso as an assistant professor in Creative Writing in 2000 11 and has been the department chair since 2017 12 Since 2011 he has co hosted the KTEP show Words on a Wire his original co host was Benjamin Alire Saenz and is now Tim Z Hernandez 13 9 Guests include Alison Hawthorne Deming Francisco Aragon and Garrett Hongo 14 He serves at the assistant director of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and was appointed chair for the International Association of Burn Camps Board of Directors in 2018 15 and is part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word s advisory board 16 He has also edited several books including A Jury of Trees a posthumous collection of poetry by Andres Montoya 2017 The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes The Selected Work of Jose Antonio Burciaga 2008 with Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Colon ization The Posthumous Poems of Andres Montoya 2017 17 18 19 His writing has also appeared in several anthologies Caliente The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction 2002 Lengua Fresca Latinos Writing on the Edge 2006 and Best of the West 2009 New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri 2009 among others 20 Journals that have published his work include ZYZZYVA Americas Review Bilingual Review Colorado Review New England Review and Callaloo 21 He also dabbles in playwrighting standup and poetry 22 23 Personal life editChacon is married and has a step daughter 4 His first child was born in 2020 24 He began speaking Spanish in 1996 25 Awards and honors editChacon has received a grant from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation 26 and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2019 27 Book Year Award Name Award Body ReferenceGodoy Lives 2000 Peter and Jean de Maine Award for an Emerging Writer in Fiction Clackamas Literary Review 28 17 Unending Rooms 2007 Hudson Prize Black Lawrence Press 17 The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga 2009 American Book Awards Before Columbus Foundation 29 Hotel Juarez 2014 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award PEN Oakland 30 Tejas Award for Best Book of Fiction National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies 31 Selected works editTitlePublisherDateLengthISBNChicano ChicaneryArte Publico Press1996144 pp paperback 978 1611920918From Mexico City to Aztlan Oregon in bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism Daniel Chacon captures the shrewd furtive and sometimes torturous ways by which Mexican Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory 32 and the shadows took himWashington Square Press2005352 pp paperback 978 0743466394Joey Molina had never been in a fight The very thought of violence upset him He only wanted to be an actor and so he read plays and learned new words with his mother When he s cast in the lead role in the school play he s eager to go home and tell his family about it but his parents have an announcement of their own 33 Unending RoomsBlack Lawrence Press2008235 pp paperback 978 0981589930The winner of the Hudson Prize this collection of stories mainly set in the Southwest digs deep into the lives of its characters Daniel Chacon s writing is very lucid and dips into Carveresque plain talk at times but he isn t afraid to use pretty descriptions as well 34 Hotel JuarezArte Publico Press2012197 pp paperback 978 1558857681In this collection of short and flash fiction Daniel Chacon examines peoples interactions with each other the impact of identity and the importance of literature art and music 35 The Cholo TreePinata Books2017248 pp paperback 978 1558858404Fourteen year old Victor has just been released from the hospital after barely surviving being shot His mother accuses him of being a cholo something he denies but she s not the only adult that thinks he s a gangbanger His sociology teacher sent him to a teach in on gange violence and other kids think he s in a gang The truth is he loves death metal reading books and drawing but he can t seem to overcome society s expectations of him 36 Kafka in a Skirt Stories from the WallUniversity of Arizona Press2019168 pp paperback 978 0816539918These stories explore the concept of a wall that reaches beyond our immediate thoughts of a towering physical structure While Chacon aims to address the partition along the U S Mexico border he also uses these stories to work through the intangible walls that divide communities and individuals particularly those who straddle multiple cultures in their daily lives 37 References edit a b Contreras Russell 2020 02 14 Focus on Latino authors amid American Dirt debate El Paso s Chacon Troncoso among suggested reads El Paso Inc Retrieved 2021 08 03 a b Maszewska Jadwiga 2004 Nobody knows where Aztlan is An interview with Daniel Chacon PDF American Studies Association Retrieved 2021 08 03 ANDRES MONTOYA 1968 1999 Andres Montoya Poetry n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 a b Silva Ire ne Lara 2020 04 10 OPENING NEW DOORS AND WINDOWS TALKING WITH DANIEL CHACoN The Rumpus Retrieved 2021 08 03 Cucurella Paula 2020 Fuck Shakespeare and MEChA in the 80s An interview with Daniel Chacon Latino Studies 18 1 122 128 doi 10 1057 s41276 019 00232 9 S2CID 214273696 ProQuest 2358996295 Retrieved 2021 08 03 Contreras Russell Mone John L 2019 08 07 El Paso with deep Mexican American past rallies amid pain after mass shooting The OCR Retrieved 2021 08 03 WORDS ON A WIRE Kenneth Robert Chacon KTEP 2017 04 16 Retrieved 2021 08 03 Vasquez Christian 2017 09 25 A tale of two cholos The Prospector Daily Retrieved 2021 08 03 a b c Yip Helen 2014 11 13 Award winning writers team up in Texas to broadcast unique national showcase for creative writing Borderzine Retrieved 2021 08 03 LETRAS LATINAS BLOG Fresno State s first Chicano student body president Archived from the original on 2012 07 10 Retrieved 2012 05 07 The Selected Works of Daniel Chacon UTEP n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 Author Professor Daniel Chacon The Crazy Artist How to create Downtown El Paso 2017 09 05 Retrieved 2021 08 03 Words on a Wire KTEP 2021 Archived from the original on 2021 01 26 Retrieved 2021 08 03 El Paso NPR KTEP 88 5 National Public Radio for the Southwest Archived from the original on 2011 12 17 Retrieved 2012 05 07 Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation Annual Report 2018 PDF Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation 2018 Retrieved 2021 08 03 Advisory Board SW Word Fiesta n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 a b c Dreyer Thorne 2013 12 06 Rag Radio 2013 12 06 Award Winning Fiction Writer Daniel Chacon Author of Hotel Juarez Rag Radio Retrieved 2021 08 03 Faculty Retrieved 2012 05 07 Daniel Chacon Professor University of Texas El Paso n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 Ladau Eric 2013 05 21 Classical 91 7 Arte Publico Author of the Month Daniel Chacon Houston Public Media Retrieved 2021 08 03 Dugan Lori 2007 03 16 EAC s Visiting Writers Series continues with Daniel Chacon Eastern Arizona College Retrieved 2021 08 03 Hoppenthaler John 2014 Daniel Chacon Poetry Connotation Press Retrieved 2021 08 03 Unending Rooms Bookshop org n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 BOOKCHAT An interview with Daniel Chacon SW Word Fiesta 2020 09 15 Retrieved 2021 08 03 Villalba Tabitha 2006 08 31 INTERVIEW Daniel Chacon Cederlof Calley 2016 04 13 Author to speak at COS Visalia Times Delta Retrieved 2021 08 03 Ramos Pachecho Maria 2019 02 19 Creative writing professors inducted to TIL The Prospector Daily Retrieved 2021 08 03 CLR Writing Contests Clackamas Literary Review n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 The American Book Awards Minnesota State Moorhead n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 PEN Oakland Awards amp Winners PEN Oakland n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 Writers Series Lake Tahoe Community College n d Retrieved 2021 08 03 Chicano Chicanery and the shadows took him Unending Rooms Hotel Juarez The Cholo Tree Kafka in a Skirt Stories from the Wall External links editUTEP faculty page Words on a Wire page Online video of show UTEP Prospector Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Daniel Chacon writer amp oldid 1202027074, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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