Words on a Wire

In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Tim Z. Hernandez interviews emerging writer Martin Velasco Ramos.

Velasco Ramos is a Journalist and photographer for the Valley Voice and most recently he launched his Youtube channel The Brave Things, a channel that provides guidance in emerging adulthood.

In this episode, host Daniel Chacon interviews author Sergio Troncoso.

Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families and fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders.

In this episode of Words on a Wire host Tim Z. Hernandez interviews author Valentin Sandoval.

Sandoval is the author of Power At The Pass: The Don Shapiro Story. He is also a filmmaker and received the 1st Award ever at UTEP for Independent Filmmaking in 1996. He won 1st Place for Documentary at UTEP’s International Film Festival 2006 and The Rasquache Film Festival, where he received an award for Best Documentary for the film “Clamor”. The awards allowed Valentin to work on industry films that came into El Paso through 1996-2002 (films include working with Miramax, TriStar, Paramount Pictures, Wavemount Productions).

In this episode host, Daniel Chacon interviews author Ted O'Conell. O'Conell is the Winner of the Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction. He is a writer and musician whose creative products have been featured in literary magazines and music halls throughout the country. He plays mandolin with the Prozac Mountain Boys and guitar with The Scarlet Locomotive, and has twice served as a visiting professor in China

In this episode of Words on a Wire host, Tim Z. Hernandez and Veronica Carbajal, former El Paso Mayor candidate, on the release of her children’ book Toma, Toma, Toma. A bilingual book for a cause.

In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacon interviews author and UTEP professor, Paula Cucurella on her poetry book "Demasiada luz para hacer poesía". Cucurella is also the author of the book "Los últimos inanes días", released in 2020.

In this episode host, Daniel Chacon interviews authors Felicia Zamora and Marisol Baca.

Baca is Fresno’s Poet Laureate, is the author of Tremor, a full length collection of poems from Three Mile Harbor Press. Marisol’s work has been published in SPFLit Magazine, Narrative Northeast, Riverlit, Shadowed: An Anthology of Women Writers.

Zamora is a poet, educator, and editor currently living in OH. She is the author of six books of poetry including I Always Carry My Bones, winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in 2021.

host Tim Z. Hernandez interviews Jon Hinojosa, Artistic Director of SAY Sí, a national award-winning, creative youth development program for urban students.

Hinojosa, is active in professional: local, regional and national creative youth development initiatives and has presented and facilitated learning at numerous conferences and symposia on the value, tangible evidence, and the transformative power the arts have on urban youth. He also serves as a board member of Texans for the Arts.

In this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacon interviews author Alessandra Narvaez Varela about the release of her new book ´Thirty Talks Weird Love´.

Narvaez Varela earned a BS in Biology and an MFA from the Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Narvaez Varela also works as an instructor for the program.

In today's episode listen to the conversation between host, Tim Z. Hernandez and author Viva Padilla.

Padilla is the founding editor of Dryland, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central Los Angeles and of Hombre Lobo. She is a first-generation Chicana, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border from Colima, Mexico. She is currently working on a bilingual poetry collection