Denise Chávez es la autora dePor el amor de Pedro Infantey deFace of an Angel, mismo que recibi—el premio American Book Award. Ha sido galardonada conel premio para escritores Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund y es la fundadora de la Feria del Libro de la Frontera/Border Book Festival, en Las Cruces, Nuevo México, donde reside con su esposo, Daniel Zolinsky.
Denise Chavez is a performance artist, novelist, and teacher whose work celebrates the border corridor of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and northern Mexico. Her novel, Face of an Angel (1994) won the American Book Award and her The King and Queen of Comez�n (2014) won the 2015 International Latino Book Award and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for fiction.