Arturo Mantecon

Arturo Mantecon

Arturo Mantecon May 2, 2022 In this episode listen to the conversation between author Arturo Mantecon and host Daniel Chacon on Mantecon’s book El día más delicioso de mi vida.   Arturo Mantecon...
MELANIE MÁRQUEZ ADAMS

MELANIE MÁRQUEZ ADAMS

Melanie Márquez Adams April 18, 2022 Melanie Márquez Adams is an Ecuadorian American writer and translator who has made her home in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.   Melanie Márquez Adams...
Octavio Quintanilla

Octavio Quintanilla

Octavio Quintanilla April 10, 2022 In this episode, Daniel Chacón speaks with writer and artist Octavio Quintanilla, author of the poetry collection, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014) as well as Wasted Time (Alabrava Press, 2019).   Octavio Quintanilla...
Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande

Reyna Grande March 22, 2022 Host Daniel Chacón talks to writer Reyna Grande about her new book A Ballad of Love and Glory (2022). Reyna Grande is the author of the memoirs The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home, and the novels Across a Hundred Mountains,...
Lupe Mendez

Lupe Mendez

Lupe Mendez March 13, 2022 Hosts, Tim Z. Hernández talks to Lupe Mendez, writer, educator and activist. Originally from Galveston, TX, is the author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry...
Garret Hongo

Garret Hongo

Garret Hongo March 8, 2022 Host Daniel Chacón talks to poet, memoirist and audio writer Garret Hongo about his new book The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo (Pantheon, 2022). His poetry collections are Yellow Light (1982), The River of Heaven (1988), which received...