Daniel S. Peña

About Daniel S. Peña

Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and associate professor of creative writing. Formerly, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City, where he worked as a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador guest professor in Leipzig, Germany, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Texas Monthly, NBC News, and The New York Times Magazine, among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian. He lives in Dallas.