Sasha Pimentel Chacón was born in Manila. She teaches literature and composition in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, Chicano writer Daniel Chacón. She is a recipient of the Philip Levine Fellowship in Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Colorado Review, and The Dos Passos Review among others. Her poetry chapbook, Blood Sister, was published in 2006. She was a featured reader at the San Francisco Poetry Fest in the summer of 2009.