id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7752 Denise Chávez - Wikipedia .html text/html 1587 264 71 Chávez was born to a Mexican American family in Las Cruces, New Mexico.[2] The first story she wrote was when she was 8, about the willow tree outside her house.[3] Chávez attended Catholic school for twelve years.[4] She graduated from Madonna High School in Mesilla. In 1985, she earned the Rockefeller Playwriting Fellowship.[10] She has received various awards, including the American Book Award in 1995,[11] New Mexico Governor's Award in Literature in 1995,[11] the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, the Mesilla Valley Author of the Year Award, and the 2003 Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature.[12] She earned the Lifetime Achievement Award, Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize from the University of New Mexico in 2016.[13] Chávez has also been awarded a Premio Aztlán Literary Prize.[14] She serves on the editorial advisory board of the Latin American and Latinx literature, philosophy, and arts journal Chasqui.[15] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7752.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7752.txt