Award-winning author to talk at LTCC

Novelist and short story writer Daniel Chacón will be at Lake Tahoe Community College on May 13 at 7pm.

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.

Daniel Chacón

This free event will be in the college library.

Chacón is the author of “Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops” (2013), which won 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.”