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Essential Voice: Special VIPF Edition Featuring Daniel Chacón
April 29, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT
Rio Grande Valley international Poetry Festival (VIPF) celebrates 15 years
Essential Voice: Special VIPF Edition Featuring Daniel Chacón
Friday, April 29 @ 5 p.m. Essential Voice: Special VIPF Edition Featuring Daniel Chacón:
Daniel Chacón is a Latinx literature elder who is full professor at the Bilingual Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. He’s author of six books of fiction, including Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms and Loops; and the shadows took him; and Kafka in a Skirt: Stories From The Wall.
His newest story collection is called Book of Superstitions: Stories and Magick, which will be available soon for preorder.
He has won the Southwest Book Award, the American Book Award, the Pen-Oakland Prize for Fiction, and the Hudson Prize. He hosts Words on a Wire, a radio show and podcast about books and writers.