Vincent Chavez

Vincent Chavez is a Chicano writer from Santa Paula, California, now based in Reno, Nevada. He holds an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University and a bachelor's in English from UC Berkeley. He is a MacDowell Fellow and a Tin House Scholar. His fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, The Southern Review, Joyland, Kweli Journal, The Masters Review, and The Adroit Journal. He serves as an Associate Series Editor for the Wigleaf Top 50. He is working on a debut story collection, Barrio Boys, set among Mexican-American families in Ventura County.