Daniel Chacón (Professor)

Department Chair

Fiction Writing, Latinx Literature, Mysticism, Fairy Tales, Koans, and Kafka

Daniel Chacón is the author of seven books of fiction, including The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions, Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall, and Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops. His work has received the American Book Award, the PEN Oakland Prize for Fiction, the Southwest Book Award, and the Hudson Prize. He is currently completing a nonfiction book, Nepantla Realism (under contract), which examines creativity through mysticism, physiology, neural networks, and artificial intelligence. This research is also shared through his newsletter, The Writer and the Brain. Chacón is the founder and host of Words on a Wire, serves as Editor-in-Chief of Huizache Magazine, and is Chair of the Creative Writing Department.

He has a literary radio show called Words on a Wire (http://ktep.org/programs/words-wire).

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Escritura de la ficción, literatura latinx, misticismo, cuentos de hadas, koans y Kafka

Daniel Chacón recientemente ha publicado la novela The Cholo Three (2017). Ha escrito Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013), el cual ganó el premio 2014 Pen Oakland for Literary Excellence y el Tejas NACCS Award para el major libro de ficción del 2013. Su colección de cuentos Undening Rooms ganó el premio 2008 Hudson. También ha escrito la novela And the shadows took him, y otra colección de cuentos Chicano Chicanery. Es editor de los poemas póstumos de Andrés Montoya, A Jury of Trees y coeditor of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José Antonio Burciaga. Su trabajo ha aparecido en las antologías Latino Boom; Latino Sudden Fiction; Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge; Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction; and Best of the West 2009: New Stories del lado oeste de Missouri. Chacón ha recibido The Hudson Prize, a Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, The American Book Award, The Pen Oakland, y el Peter and Jean de Main Emerging Writers Award, entre otros.