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Daniel Chacón (writer) was born on 1962 in Fresno, California, U.S., is a Chicano American author and educator. Discover Daniel Chacón (writer)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Writer, educator
Age 62 years old
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Born 1962, 1962
Birthday 1962
Birthplace Fresno, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1962

Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas.

He chairs the University of Texas, El Paso's creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program.

1985

He founded the Chicano Writers and Artists Association with Fresno State classmate and close friend Andrés Montoya in 1985.

Chacón was born and raised in Fresno, California; his father was from El Paso, Texas.

One of his brothers is writer Kenneth Robert Chacón, from whom he was estranged for many years.

He earned a BA in Political Science from California State University, Fresno and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Oregon.

While at CSU, he wrote for the campus newspaper La Voz de Aztan.

1996

He began speaking Spanish in 1996.

2000

Chacón joined the MFA program at University of Texas El Paso as an assistant professor in Creative Writing in 2000 and has been the department chair since 2017.

2002

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.

Journals that have published his work include ZYZZYVA, Americas Review, Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, New England Review, and Callaloo.

He also dabbles in playwrighting, standup, and poetry.

Chacón is married and has a step-daughter.

2011

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.

Guests include Alison Hawthorne Deming, Francisco Aragón, and Garrett Hongo.

2017

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).

2018

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, and is part of the Southwest Festival of the Written Word's advisory board.

2019

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

2020

His first child was born in 2020.