ABOUT
Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing. Formerly, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig, Germany, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, the Kenyon Review, Texas Monthly, NBC News, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel, Bang, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Daniel Peña is represented by Erin Harris of Folio Literary Management. She can be reached at eharris [at] foliolit.com. If you’d like to get in touch about non-editorial matters, feel free to e-mail dp@danielpena.me. Or Follow Daniel Peña on Twitter and Instagram @danimalpena!