Sasha Pimentel Chacon
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Born in Manila and raised in Atlanta, Saudi Arabia and the NYC tri-state region, Sasha Pimentel Chacón is a Filipina American poet and author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Her work has appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review and Callaloo, and she is the winner of the Ernesto Trejo prize and the Philip Levine fellowship. She is currently an assistant professor of poetics and poetry writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. She lives in El Paso with her husband, fiction author Daniel Chacón, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Winning Entry: Abacus, Panic, The Eyes Open to a Cry
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2011, Finalist
