LTCC’s Writers’ Series welcomes author Daniel Chacón

The Lake Tahoe Community College Writers’ Series welcomes novelist and short story writer Daniel Chacón on Friday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. in LTCC’s library. Chacón will read selections from his works, answer audience questions about the writing process, and sign copies of his books, which will be available for sale. This event is sponsored by LTCC’s Equity Office, and is free and open to the public.

Chacón is the author of Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013), which won both the 2014 Pen Oakland Award for Literary Excellence and the Tejas NACCS Award for Best Book of Fiction for 2013. His collection of short stories, Unending Rooms, won the 2008 Hudson Prize. He also has a novel, And the Shadows Took Him, and another collection of stories called Chicano Chicanery. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies "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 from the West Side of the Missouri."

Chacón co-edited "The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José Antonio Burciaga" and is editor of "A Jury of Trees: The Posthomous Poems of Andrés Montoya," forthcoming from Bilingual Press and The Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame. He has won The Hudson Prize, a Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, The American Book Award, The Pen Oakland, and the Peter and Jean de Main Emerging Writers Award, among others. Chacón also co-hosts a literary radio show along with fellow writer Tim Z. Hernandez called Words on a Wire, Sundays at noon on KTEP, the NPR station broadcasting out of El Paso, Texas.

LTCC’s Writers’ Series is committed to providing a cultural outlet for students and the community by hosting free readings, discussions, craft talks and workshops with nationally known, award-winning authors, as well as poetry slams, open mic nights and student readings. Over the past 15 years, LTCC has welcomed nationally-acclaimed poets and writers such as Carolyn Forché, Brian Turner, Denise Duhamel, Luis Rodriguez, H.L. Hix, Sholeh Wolpé, Chris Abani, Dorianne Laux, Francisco Jimenez, Juan Felipe Herrera, Nathalie Handal, Tracy Ross and Patricia Smith. For more information, contact LTCC Writers’ Series coordinator Dr. Suzanne Roberts at robertss@ltcc.edu.