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Bilingual Projects

Bilingual Projects June 12, 2022 In this episode, listen to the conversation between  author and MFA student Ana Llurba and the members of Bilingual projects. Sara Cordón is a Spanish writer currently living in New York City. She is the author of the novel Para...

Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez June 4, 2022 Mariana Enríquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. In this episode Daniel talks with international best selling fiction writer Mariana Enriquez. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, she writes...

Ana Llurba

Ana Llurba

Ana Llurba May 31, 2022 In this episode listen to the conversation between host Daniel Chacon and author Ana Llurba. Llurba  (Córdoba, Argentina) has published Este es el momento exacto en que el tiempo empieza a correr (Antonio Colinas Young Poetry Prize), La puerta...

Jonna Perillo

Jonna Perillo

Jonna Perillo May 25, 2022 In this episode host Tim Z. Hernandez interviews UTEP Associate English professor, Jonna Perillo on her new book Educating the Enemy.  Perillo's new book Educating the Enemy charts the story of how two groups of immigrant students both...

Maria Maloney

Maria Maloney

Maria Maloney May 15, 2022 In this episode listen to host Daniel Chacón talks to author Maria M. Maloney about her book Cracked Spaces (Pandora Lobo, 2021).  Don't Miss an Episode

Writing in Motherhood

Writing in Motherhood | Escritura y Maternidades May 10, 2022 In this episode listen to conversation between mothers and writers featuring special guests: Andrea Cote Botero, Rosa Alcala and Jazmina Barrera. This is a bilingial episode in English and Spanish. ...

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.  Don't Miss an Episode

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.  Don't Miss an Episode

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).  Don't Miss an Episode

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...