Daniel Peña

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On Being A Writer With A Super Common Name or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Google

ByDaniel Peña

My name is Daniel Peña, I’m a writer, and there are other Daniel Peñas messin’ up my Google results. It’s annoying and I’m against it. To ground us, let me tell you who they are: One Daniel Peña is an incredible twelve year old boy who showed me up by designing a Nike Air Jordan…

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The Millennial-Gen X Rift Part II: the MFA System And A Digital Latina/o Literary Renaissance

ByDaniel Peña

Hector Tobar wouldn’t be the first to speculate about a contemporary Latina/o literary renaissance. That hype has been around for a long, long while. It surrounded the work of Gen X Latina/o writers beginning to publish in the mid to late 90’s and early 2000’s of which Junot Diaz is the most notable. The same…