Denise Chávez

Fiction Writer

Las Cruces, NM
New Mexico US
Email: 
comezon09@comcast.net

Author's Bio

I am a performance writer, novelist and teacher who lives and works on the U.S./México border corridor in southern New Mexico. I am the Director/Bookseller at Casa Camino Real, a bookstore and gallery on the historic Camino Real in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We sell books on Abebooks, www.abebooks.com I believe in the power of writing to heal lives and heal the many borders between people, real and imagined.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The King and Queen of Comezón (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)
,
A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture (Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2006)
,
La Ultima de Las Muchachas del Menu (Vintage, 2005)
,
The Last of the Menu Girls (Vintage, 2004)
,
Loving Pedro Infante (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
,
Face of An Angel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994)
Prizes won: 

Hispanic Heritage Award The American Book Award Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fellowship Writers of the Pass New Mexico Governor's Award in Literature Honorary Doctorate from the University of NM

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Spanish
Born in: 
Las Cruces
Raised in: 
Las Cruces, NM
New Mexico
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Last update: Jun 19, 2020