Daniel Chacón is author of four books of fiction, and co-editor with Mimi Gladstein of The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga, which won the American Book Award in 2009. Chacon is recipient of a grant from the Chris Isherwood Foundation as well as the Hudson Book Prize for Unending Rooms, a collection of stories and flash fiction of which Antonya Nelson writes, "Chacón has either re-invented the form, or refreshingly reminded his readers of what stories do best, linger in the mind..." Chacon's first book was Chicano Chicanery, a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and which The New York Times Review of Books writes, "Although a collection of stories, this book is A Portrait of the Chicano Artist as a Young man."His books are widely used at college and universities, and the stories have been anthologized in many collections, including The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction and Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley.He is also editor of the forthcoming book, Colón-nization, Early and Posthumous Poems of Andrés Montoya.