Daniel Alarcon
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Daniel Alarcón (b. 1977) is an author who lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.
Daniel Alarcón’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. His non-fiction has appeared in Salon and Eyeshot, and he is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra. He was a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru.
His first book War by Candlelight was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award.
Daniel Alarcón is an alumnus of Indian Springs School in Alabama.
His first novel Lost City Radio will be published in February 2007.
[edit] Awards
- Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2004 for fiction.
