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 episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón talks with Luisana Duarte Armendáriz, author of the middle-grade mystery novels Julieta and the Diamond Enigma and Julieta and the Cryptic Rose. -
Host Daniel Chacón talks with poet and translator Francisco Aragón about Handbook of Foams, the first full English translation of Gerardo Diego’s 1922 avant-garde classic. -
In this episode, Daniel Chacón speaks with poet and attorney Rey M. Rodríguez about Todos Somos Sagrados / All Are Sacred, his poetry collection honoring the immigrant women of Proyecto Pastoral in Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights neighborhood. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón speaks with acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, about her life in literature and her return to poetry with Visitations. -
In part two of this Words on a Wire conversation, host Daniel Chacón continues his discussion with actor, director, and UTEP theater professor Jay Stratton. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón sits down with actor, director, and The University of Texas at El Paso theater professor Jay Stratton for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, performance, teaching, and life in the arts. -
In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón speaks with acclaimed author Reyna Grande about her latest book, Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget. -
In part two of this conversation, host Daniel Chacón continues his discussion with Gabriela Baeza Ventura, director of Arte Público Press, exploring the challenges and future of Latino publishing in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. -
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.
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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.
