[needs update] Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas.

[2] He founded the Chicano Writers and Artists Association with Fresno State classmate and close friend Andrés Montoya in 1985.

[9] Chacón joined the MFA program at University of Texas at El Paso as an assistant professor in Creative Writing in 2000[11] and has been the department chair since 2017.

[16] He has also edited several books, including A Jury of Trees (a posthumous collection of poetry by Andrés Montoya) (2017), The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José Antonio Burciaga (2008; with Mimi Reisel Gladstein) and Colón-ization: The Posthumous Poems of Andrés Montoya (2017).

[25] Chacón has received a grant from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation[26] and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2019.