Daniel Chacón
Words on a Wire HostDaniel Chacón’s collection of stories, Unending Rooms, was the 2007 winner of the Hudson Prize. He has also been awarded the American Book Award, the Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and his novel and the shadows took him is available from Simon and Schuster. His new book is a collection of stories called Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms and Loops. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.
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In this first episode of a two-part conversation, host Daniel Chacón sits down with Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura, director and publisher of Arte Público Press—widely recognized as the nation’s leading publisher of U.S. Latinx literature. -
In part two of this special live recording of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón continues his conversation with historian David Dorado Romo, marking the 20th anniversary of Ringside Seat to a Revolution. This episode moves deeper into Romo’s philosophy of history, storytelling, and what it truly means to understand revolution from the ground up. -
This special episode of Words on a Wire brings together host Daniel Chacón and historian David Dorado Romo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Romo’s groundbreaking book Ringside Seat to a Revolution. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, Will Rose sits down with writer and editor Daniel Chacón and poet Gabriel Dozal for a conversation centered on a major moment for the literary community in the U.S.–Mexico border region: the relocation of Huizache Magazine to El Paso, Texas. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón sits down with two creative writing students, Jack Bishop and Luis Marquez, to talk about writing, storytelling, and the launch of their new student podcast, The Writer’s Pick. -
In this New Year’s episode of Words on a Wire, host Will Rose sits down with longtime co-host Daniel Chacón for a reflective conversation about artificial intelligence: how rapidly it has entered everyday life, how it is reshaping creativity, education, labor, and culture, and why it generates both excitement and unease. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón speaks with writer, editor, and cultural critic Scótt Russell Dúncan about identity, futurity, and the politics of who gets to imagine the future. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón sits down with Dr. Roberto Avant-Mier, Chair of the Communication Department at the University of Texas at El Paso and a leading scholar of Chicano film. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón speaks with writer and journalist Michelle Morgante about her journey from a small agricultural town in California’s San Joaquin Valley to a globe-spanning career in journalism, and ultimately, to fiction writing. -
In this candid and forward-looking conversation, host Will Rose sits down with longtime Words on a Wire co-host Daniel Chacón to examine how profoundly the writing life has changed—and what the new realities mean for anyone trying to build a writing career in 2025.
