Background
Daniel Cano was born in United States in 1947. He grew up listening to stories of his grandfather’s flight from Mexico during the Revolution of 1910. As a child, the author had little interest in these tales, but as he grew older Cano began to develop an intense interest in his family’s history and in Mexican culture.
Education
Daniel Kano studied at the Santa Monica College and received a diploma, and then studied at the California State University of Dominguez-Hills and received a Bachelor of Arts (Spanish) and Master of Arts (English).
Career
He served in the US Army during the Vietnam War.
Kano began writing fiction in 1970, a year after his military service. In the early written years, his thinking was dominated by two subjects. One of them is the Mexican-American community, and the second is the war in Vietnam.
He is the author of Pepe Ríos (Arte Público Press, 1991), Shifting Loyalties (Arte Público Press, 1995), "Death and the American Dream" (Bilingual Review Press, 2008). His work was published in various anthologies, including "Pieces of the Heart: The New Chicane Fiction" (1993) and "Latino Boom: An Anthology of Latin American Literature in the United States" (Longman, 2005).