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Jul. 31, 2024
My Chicano Heart: Using fiction to explore love in all its confounding forms
Daniel A. Olivas reviewed his past works during the pandemic and identified love as a recurring theme, leading to the creation of his new collection, "My Chicano Heart."
Daniel A. Olivas
Senior Assistant Attorney General , Land Use and Conservation Section of the California Department of Justice
Daniel A. Olivas is the senior assistant attorney general of the Land Use and Conservation Section of the California Department of Justice. He is also a playwright, poet, critic, and the author of 12 books, including his latest novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press), and My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press).
In 2020, as my father was approaching the end of his physical life, I started to review well over a hundred short stories and novel chapters that I had written and published over the course of almost 25 years. From that exercise—perhaps one that admitted my own mortality—I chose some of my stranger stories to include with two newer pieces to produce a collection that was firmly footed in the magical realist, fabulist, and dystopian literary traditions. The result was ...
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