Daniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Texas. Formerly, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as Fulbright-García Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig, Germany, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, Texas Monthly, NBC News, and the New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to the Guardian. His novel, Bang, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in beautiful Houston, Texas.