Daniel Chacón is author of six books of fiction, including Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms and Loops and the novel and the shadows took him. His new collection, Kafka in a Skirt: Stories from the Wall® is forthcoming in 2020 from University of Arizona Press. He has won the Southwest Book Award, the American Book Award, the Pen-Oakland Prize for Fiction, and the Hudson Prize. He is cohost of Words on a Wire, a radio show about books and ideas. https://soychacon.wordpress.com.