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WORDS ON A WIRE: Daniel Chacón

Tim Hernandez has the privilege of speaking with award-winning author, editor, and co-host of Words on a Wire - Daniel Chacón! Daniel and Tim discuss Daniel's latest work, The Cholo Tree. Daniel Chacón is author of five books of fiction and editor of A Jury of Trees, the posthumous poems of Andrés Montoya. He is co-editor with Mimi Gladstein of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga. He is recipient of the Pen Oakland Fiction Award, a Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, the Hudson Book Prize, and The American Book Award.

Aired January 7, 2018

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